Carmen Boullosa Professions : Poet Born : September 4, 1954 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Carmen Boullosa I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel. Carmen Boullosa stories writing way Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas. Carmen Boullosa women space ideas Some people die, others just run out of fuel. Carmen Boullosa running death people The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life. Carmen Boullosa names world I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings. Carmen Boullosa desert angel wings In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person. Carmen Boullosa sin vices worship Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human. Carmen Boullosa language stones writing Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
