Companion Quote by Edward Burnett Tylor

“This was before the Sorias had left Mexico, before the Revolution, back when they’d been called Los Santos de Abejones. When they’d been Los…

— Maggie Stiefvater

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

— Peter Cook

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course,…

— Tomoki Kameda

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning...we had received to beware of entering the…

— Bernal Diaz del Castillo

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade…

— Aimee Garcia

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as…

— Sarah Stillman

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language.…

— Andrea Navedo

“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought…

— Georges Limbour

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“The exchange of foodstuffs began as a deliberate policy of the Spanish crown. Old World crops and livestock were introduced to Mexico and Peru…

— Raymond Sokolov

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