Carlos Fuentes Quotes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

Topics

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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

Jenny Zhang

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I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

John Grant

LiveTruthMyselfDayWorldI Can

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Robert Schumann

BeautifulEyesYouBecomeWrite

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

Stellan Skarsgard

WorkThinkYouUnderstandHardSell

I like when an audience doesn't know what's going to happen to a character, and I like when I don't know. I'm learning, too - I don't get the script, like, until the last day.

Miriam Shor

LearningCharacterDayKnowAudience

I love '80s beats; everyone does.

Julia Holter

LoveEveryoneBeatsDoesI Love

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

Clive Owen

WritingYearYouPageNeverGround

There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.

Art Malik

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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Alfred Hitchcock

WayGetOnlyMakeFearsRid

I'm just, 'Hi, I'm Shamir. I'm gonna sing, hug you, then you can buy my album.'

Shamir

YouHugBuySingJustHi

I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.

Ryan O'Neal

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