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Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.
— Carlos Fuentes
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
— Carlos Fuentes
The real bombs are my books, not me.
— Carlos Fuentes
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
— Carlos Fuentes
I love having critics for breakfast.
— Carlos Fuentes
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
— Carlos Fuentes
Finished, the book begins.
— Carlos Fuentes
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
— Carlos Fuentes
I have no literary fears.
— Carlos Fuentes
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
— Carlos Fuentes
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
— Carlos Fuentes
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. — Carlos Fuentes
What happens when I break one of your fuckin' rules?
— Simone Elkeles
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
— Carlos Fuentes
You will wish and not wish to see.
— Carlos Fuentes
Memory is satisfied desire.
— Carlos Fuentes
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
— Carlos Fuentes
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
— Carlos Fuentes
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire ... is one Monarch and one Sword.
— Carlos Fuentes
Did you know we know we are all the object of another's imagination?
— Carlos Fuentes
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
— Carlos Fuentes
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall downand break your neck. — Carlos Fuentes
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa.""What does it mean?"
"You're beautiful. — Simone Elkeles
Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me."Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window. — Simone Elkeles
Do I hear a challenge?" she whispers, "Oh, Carlos. You know I can't resist a challenge.
— Simone Elkeles
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
— Carlos Fuentes
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
— Carlos Fuentes
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
— Carlos Fuentes
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
— Carlos Fuentes
Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present.
— Carlos Fuentes
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
— Carlos Fuentes
Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.
— Carlos Fuentes
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
— Carlos Fuentes
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
— Carlos Fuentes
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
— Carlos Fuentes
Don't classify me, read me.
— Carlos Fuentes
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
— Carlos Fuentes
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
— Carlos Fuentes
Did we come here to laugh or cry ? Are we dying or being born ?
— Carlos Fuentes
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
— Carlos Fuentes
Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.
— Carlos Fuentes
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
— 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
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
— Carlos Fuentes
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
— Carlos Fuentes
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
— Carlos Fuentes
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
— Carlos Fuentes
I'm a writer, not a genre.
— Carlos Fuentes
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
— Carlos Fuentes
And don't give me the same old story:"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle. — Carlos Fuentes
Chaos: it has no plural.
— Carlos Fuentes
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
— Carlos Fuentes
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
— Carlos Fuentes
Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.?
— Simone Elkeles
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
— Carlos Fuentes
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
— Carlos Fuentes
I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'.
— Simone Elkeles
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
— Carlos Fuentes
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
— Carlos Fuentes
Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers).
— Simone Elkeles
Next time I want to do something nice, slap me.
— Simone Elkeles
Work is what saves you.
— Carlos Fuentes
In literature, you know only what you imagine
— Carlos Fuentes
Writing is a struggle against silence.
— Carlos Fuentes
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
— Carlos Fuentes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.
— Carlos Fuentes
We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death.
— Carlos Fuentes
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
— Carlos Fuentes
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
— Carlos Fuentes
Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos?
— Simone Elkeles
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
— Carlos Fuentes
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
— Carlos Fuentes
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
— Carlos Fuentes
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
— Carlos Fuentes
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
— Carlos Fuentes
