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Carlos Fuentes (Writer)

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

— Carlos Fuentes man

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

— Carlos Fuentes war

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.

— Carlos Fuentes writing

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.

— Carlos Fuentes death

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

— Carlos Fuentes self

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 life

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.

— Carlos Fuentes writing

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

— Carlos Fuentes literature

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

— Carlos Fuentes america

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.

— Carlos Fuentes women

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

— Carlos Fuentes writing

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

— Carlos Fuentes man

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes life

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

— Carlos Fuentes need

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

— Carlos Fuentes horror

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 books

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

— Carlos Fuentes family

I have no literary fears.

— Carlos Fuentes fear

I love having critics for breakfast.

— Carlos Fuentes love

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

— Carlos Fuentes world

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

— Carlos Fuentes life

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

— Carlos Fuentes atheist

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

— Carlos Fuentes work

Don't classify me, read me.

— Carlos Fuentes read

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

— Carlos Fuentes love

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