"I must write the book out in my…" — Carlos Fuentes

"I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down."

— Carlos Fuentes

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72 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes has 72 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
In literature, you know only what you imagine
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search…
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last…
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer…
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first…
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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