Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its… — 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
“... is it the young who pass death to the old, or do the old bequeath it to the young? ― Carlos… — 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
