Boat Quote by Carlos Fuentes

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

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

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of…

— Carlos Fuentes

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

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

— Carlos Fuentes

“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

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

— Carlos Fuentes

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

chaos: it has no plural.

— Carlos Fuentes

“Sólo el imbécil no duda. Sólo el idiota no sufre".”

— Carlos Fuentes

I have no literary fears.

— Carlos Fuentes

“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