"A writer does not create a world; he discovers the worlds hidden inside people."

"Writing, if questioned from the point of view of place of speech, dies. I only write because I travel to others. I am a woman, I am a child, I am old, I am others when I write. If I can only write within the competence of my place of speech as I should, I only speak about myself. So, what creates literature is this capacity to be another," | Mia Couto, interview with UOL TAB, 2018.