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.
Carlos FuentesRead
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Literature enriches our lives by providing diverse experiences and perspectives beyond our own.
Carlos Fuentes highlights the transformative power of literature, suggesting that it surpasses history by offering readers multiple lives and experiences that enhance their understanding of the world. Through literature, individuals can explore various narratives and viewpoints, ultimately broadening their horizons and opening up new possibilities in life.
Themes
LiteratureExperienceOpportunitiesReadingImagination
In practice
Example use cases
During a book club meeting discussing the impacts of literature on personal growth.
More from Carlos Fuentes
All quotes βWriting is a struggle against silence.
Carlos FuentesRead
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
Carlos FuentesRead
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
Carlos FuentesRead
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
Carlos FuentesRead
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 FuentesRead
Similar quotes
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.
Junot DiazRead
Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And since as a professional writer you are full of anxiety anyway, you could easily misread the signs.
Julian BarnesRead
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
Barbara KingsolverRead
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Italo CalvinoRead
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra PoundRead
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
Salman RushdieRead