“all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.”
Carlos Fuentes“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
Carlos Fuentes“I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.”
Carlos Fuentes“I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.”
Carlos Fuentes“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.”
Carlos Fuentes“Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.”
Carlos Fuentes“…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)”
Carlos Fuentes“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.”
Carlos Fuentes“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
Carlos Fuentes“Writing is a struggle against silence.”
Carlos Fuentes“I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.”
Carlos Fuentes