Mexican - Novelist | November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
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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.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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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.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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