Top 44 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

About Carlos Fuentes

These are some quotes by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes Novelist, who lived between November 11, 1929 and May 15, 2012.

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

I'm a writer, not a genre.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

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

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.

Carlos Fuentes

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

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

Carlos Fuentes

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

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

Carlos Fuentes

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 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.

Carlos Fuentes

The real bombs are my books, not me.

The real bombs are my books, not me.

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.

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.

Carlos Fuentes

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

Carlos Fuentes

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