Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
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Work is what saves you.
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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.
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.
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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.
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.
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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.
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.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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