Carlos Fuentes

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. ”

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. ”

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. ”

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. ”

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. ”

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. ”

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. ”

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ”

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ”