Every word we write is a step toward the grave. - Fernando Vallejo

"Every word we write is a step toward the grave."

Fernando Vallejo Literature

Novelist Colombian Born 1942 (age 84)

More from Fernando Vallejo

"Life is a struggle against forgetting who we are."

"Colombia is a country where people kill each other for ideologies they don't understand."

"The Catholic Church is the greatest fraud in human history."

"Memory is the only immortality we have."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Literature opens the mind to new worlds"

"The interesting thing about books is that they're made of words."

"Literature captures the essence of what it means to be human."