Books Quote by Carlos Fuentes Download Open image “I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.” — Carlos Fuentes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Felt Littles Needs Novel Protagonists Worms Writing
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm reading Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan' novels. They are amazing. I feel like she gets the entire experience of being a woman. — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my… — Isabel Allende 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 Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share
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 my past. There’s nothing in me to justify the pretension of creativity. This came before anything, before you, before Raquel, this is a matter of my own emptiness, my awareness of my own limits, maybe my… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share
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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image