Writer Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

“Finished, the book begins.”

— Carlos Fuentes

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

The real bombs are my books, not me.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

— Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

— Carlos Fuentes

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live…

— Carlos Fuentes

“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open…

— Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

— Carlos Fuentes

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that…

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go…

— Carlos Fuentes