Best Carlos Fuentes Quotes
- Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. Among
- I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. Always Felt
- I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. Imagination
- I have no literary fears. Fears
- I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? Alive
- I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. All
- I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Book
- I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. Commentary
- I've lost audiences, I've recovered them. Audience
- In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. America
- My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. Go
- I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. Already Knew
- What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have… Abu
- Cuba needs a dose of perestroika. Cuba
- I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to… Believe
- The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history… Asian
- You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. Die
- Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. Classify
- Memory is satisfied desire. Desire
- I need, therefore I imagine. Imagine
- Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. Animal
- I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and… Art
- chaos: it has no plural. Chaos
- Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. Connections
- There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. Creation