For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
I have no literary fears. - Carlos Fuentes
I have no literary fears.
- Carlos Fuentes
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. - Carlos Fuentes
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes
Writing is a struggle against silence.
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of… - Carlos Fuentes
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of…
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. - Carlos Fuentes
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
chaos: it has no plural. - Carlos Fuentes
chaos: it has no plural.
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. - Carlos Fuentes
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. - Carlos Fuentes
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
I need, therefore I imagine. - Carlos Fuentes
I need, therefore I imagine.
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