Quotes By Carlos Fuentes

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.

I love having critics for breakfast.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

The real bombs are my books, not me.

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

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Work is what saves you.

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 the United States.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.