The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. Carlos Fuentes More Quotes by Carlos Fuentes More Quotes From Carlos Fuentes Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency Carlos Fuentes strangeignorancechildren In literature, you know only what you imagine Carlos Fuentes imagineliteraturewriting There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing. Carlos Fuentes creationtradition 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 The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought. Carlos Fuentes epicfirehero What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. Carlos Fuentes There are a lot of us here in this situation. Carlos Fuentes world 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. Carlos Fuentes hatyoublackwhite The real bombs are my books, not me. Carlos Fuentes booksmebombsreal What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. Carlos Fuentes challengesaymediawant Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. Carlos Fuentes nothingconcentrationdonewriting I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing. Carlos Fuentes i-amwalkdaymorning The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. Carlos Fuentes othersbadgoodunderstanding
