Books Quote by Carlos Fuentes

I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being…

— Francisco Goldman

I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You…

— Francisco Goldman

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live off writing.…

— Carlos Fuentes

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed productions, usually…

— Francisco Goldman

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

— Che Guevara

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has…

— Francisco Goldman

The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about…

— Francisco Goldman

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

— Sam Shepard

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut