Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. — 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
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
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — 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
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
“How to accept the diversity and mutilation of the world, while retaining the minds power for analogy and unity, so this changing… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
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
Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it,… — 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
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian… — 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
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live… — 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
