Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The United States still thinks that Mexico is a nineteenth century industrial society. It isn't that any longer, it has to adapt… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to… — 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
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James… — 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
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
