I would like to prepare a collection of one-sentence stories, or one-line stories, if possible. But so far I haven't found one that surpasses that of the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso: "When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there."

Italo Calvino

Augusto Monterroso is a fundamental writer, formidably intelligent, and mercifully brief.

Carlos Monsiváis

Augusto Monterroso is one of the few writers (Borges would be another, or the other) who are born into literature as classics and with the will to be classics.

Juan Antonio Masoliver

Of very few can it be said, as of Monterroso, that almost every one of their pages is simply perfect and, at the same time, that they tend to be so in a discreet way: they don't seek our applause, but our pleasure; once this is produced, they seem to dissolve into their own charm, intangible as a memory.

José Miguel Oviedo