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
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. — 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
“Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. — 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
