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All Quotes by author - 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. "

" 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 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 don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. "

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

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

" I've lost audiences, I've recovered them. "

" 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. "

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

" One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. "

" Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. "

" The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Work is what saves you. "

" Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. "

" 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. "

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