Author: Carlos Fuentes

Quotes

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 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

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

- Carlos Fuentes

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

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

- Carlos Fuentes

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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