Top 44 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

Work is what saves you.

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.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

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.

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

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

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