Carlos Fuentes was born 11 November 1928, and died 15 May 2012.
Carlos Fuentes: 10 Quotes On Writing
- 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.
- You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
- 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.
- Writing is a struggle against silence.
- The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
- I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
- One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
- Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.
- Did you know we know we are all the object of another’s imagination?
- Finished, the book begins.
Carlos Fuentes was a Mexican novelist and essayist. His novels include The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, and The Old Gringo
. The New York Times described him as ‘one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world’ and an important influence on the explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and ’70s. He was often thought a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature although he never won.
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