Carlos Fuentes Quotes

The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the pheno...

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: o...

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The...

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in m...

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

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

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je j...

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

Writing is a struggle against silence.

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about t...

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of lite...

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, huma...

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest ...

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Em...

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the f...

Cristo quería a los justos, habitaba las buenas conciencias, pertenecía a los hombres de bien, a la ...

all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel wo...

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...

He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did n...

Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal orde...

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the intern...