I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. Carlos Fuentes More Quotes by Carlos Fuentes More Quotes From Carlos Fuentes The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. Carlos Fuentes resentment language spring The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. Carlos Fuentes fantastic cameras creative Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. Carlos Fuentes filled isolation absence chaos: it has no plural. Carlos Fuentes chaos What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others. Carlos Fuentes worst doe america I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck. Carlos Fuentes risk art fall Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. Carlos Fuentes horror perfect order What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. Carlos Fuentes records iraq rights The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. Carlos Fuentes intelligence mexican soul The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. Carlos Fuentes peruvians boat sarcastic Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. Carlos Fuentes incredibles animal firsts 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 fighting opposites writing I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat. Therefore, I grew up in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the United States, I studied in Switzerland - so I've always had perspective on my country - I am thankful for that. Carlos Fuentes perspective country father By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. Carlos Fuentes finals becoming lasts The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. Carlos Fuentes men-and-women men In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. Carlos Fuentes atheist latin america The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo. Carlos Fuentes mexican black past There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. Carlos Fuentes barbarism support helping When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to the millions of Mexicans who have to build our roads, dams, schools, all the things that are left undone in Mexico while we have the manpower. There is something very bad going on, on both sides of the border in Mexico and the US. But the worker is a worker, not a criminal. So, I am in favor of a solution such as the Kennedy-McCain proposals that make it clear what steps have to be taken to accept the fact that the US needs foreign workers. Carlos Fuentes taken giving school 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 black latin america
