Carlos Fuentes Quotes

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

Best, Understand, Others

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

Good, Experience, Bad

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

Family, Good, Happy

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

Life, History, Experience

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes

Perfect, Order, Horror

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

Everyone, Order, Economic

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

Help, Support, Beyond

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, Brave, Young

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes

Needs, Cuba, Dose

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

Yourself, Fight, Writing

Don't classify me, read me.
Carlos Fuentes

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

Wife, Friends, Living

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes

Woman, Write, Felt

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

Everything, Literature, Animal

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

Morning, Writing, Keep

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

Life, Interested, Slice

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, Win, Give

I have no literary fears.
Carlos Fuentes

Fears, Literary

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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Children, Two, Before

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
Carlos Fuentes

Time, Fighting, Rows

I love having critics for breakfast.
Carlos Fuentes

Love, Breakfast, Critics

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

Book, Down, Before

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
Carlos Fuentes

Film, Started, News

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Carlos Fuentes

I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Born: November 11, 1929

Died: May 15, 2012

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