By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction,… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
