Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías audio was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringoand Christopher Unborn. In his obituary, the New York Times described him as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1928
CityPanama City, Panama
CountryMexico
Carlos Fuentes quotes about
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
I have no literary fears.
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.