Best Carlos Fuentes Sayings
- Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,… Accepting
- The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… Author
- The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… Action
- One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of… Death
- Writing is a struggle against silence. Beautiful
- Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. Absence
- 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 protect… Bad
- Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. Diversity
- I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very… Criticism
- Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Expands
- What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. Best
- The real bombs are my books, not me. Bombs
- The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. Admit
- Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. Concentration
- The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. Bad
- Work is what saves you. Saves
- The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the… Camera
- Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a… Continue
- 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 women. Both
- Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly… All
- The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. America
- What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be… Allow