Quotes by Writing You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont 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 Fuentes mexicanwritingmean Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. Carlos Fuentes fightingoppositeswriting Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more. Carlos Fuentes angelwriting Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live off writing. He has an audience: there are publishing houses, there are newspapers - so the situation is not as terrible as it used to be when there were no means and he had to go into government service, be an ambassador or a cabinet minister, etc. So, things are changing in the sense that the civil society is now the protagonist. The writer therefore occupies a different position, but no less influential than in the past, in a new, democratic society. Carlos Fuentes writingmeanpast Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it. Carlos Fuentes writingtryingcountry To read and write is a paradise. Carlos Fuentes paradisewriting I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. Carlos Fuentes writinglittlesneeds I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes writingbook In literature, you know only what you imagine Carlos Fuentes imagineliteraturewriting One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes biographieslike-youwriting I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn leaderwritingpeople Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. Carlos J. Cortes loseswriting It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it. Carlos Ruiz Zafon hard-workwritingbook Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. Carlos Ruiz Zafon novelistshuman-naturewriting Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope. Carlos Ruiz Zafon letterswritingbook I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return. Carlos Ruiz Zafon motherwritingfather A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. Carlos Ruiz Zafon would-bestorieswriting I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again. Carlos Ruiz Zafon phrasesexpressionwriting The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. Carlos Ruiz Zafon toolsliteraturewriting You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands. Carlos Ruiz Zafon readingwritingbook«195196197198199200201202203204205»
