Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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 women.
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
Don't classify me, read me.
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
I have no literary fears.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
I love having critics for breakfast.
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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Carlos Fuentes
Profession
Novelist
BirthDate
11 November, 1929
DeathDate
15 May, 2012
Country
Mexico
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