Carlos Fuentes
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
Carlos Fuentes

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

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

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

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Carlos Fuentes
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
Carlos Fuentes

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
Carlos Fuentes

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
Carlos Fuentes

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

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

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me.

Carlos Fuentes
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
Carlos Fuentes

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
Carlos Fuentes

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

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
Carlos Fuentes

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

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

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

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
Carlos Fuentes

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

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes

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