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Carlos Fuentes quotes

Mexican Novelist November 11, 1929 – May 15, 2012

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Carlos Fuentes quote: "Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre."
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "Don't classify me, read me."
Don't classify me, read me. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination."
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics."
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. Carlos Fuentes
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature."
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "The new world economic order is not an exercise in..."
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write..."
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "And don't give me the same old story:"We're in Mexico...."
And don't give me the same old story:"We're in Mexico. Pray."You'd be better off taking a snake rattle. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "I have no literary fears."
I have no literary fears. Carlos Fuentes
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that..."
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. Carlos Fuentes
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to..."
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. 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. Carlos Fuentes

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