I have enough to do for the next ten years without having to think of anything else to write. By then, trust me, I will have new material. I do not consider myself as an ethnic writer. I think of myself as a writer. I write about people.
People are the same.
I have had letters from all over the world and people tell me how much my books remind them of their ancestors. I portray the Mexican-American in a good light, as a human being just as human as anyone else. I also portray him with dignity, the same dignity that all mankind possesses. A writer's job is to depict life and its events in the way he sees them. A writer like myself sees things different than the normal person.