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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Woman Me You Now Write Need

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

Robert J. Sawyer

Story Short Distance Two Route

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.

John Sherman Cooper

Death Texas Think Thought President

I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. I'd listen to 'Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow... Right!' and 'Wonderfulness,' which are two of his most famous albums. Then the next night, I'd flip them over, 'cause it was the old stackable turntable.

Stephen Colbert

Funny Sleep Night Famous Comedy Go

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Time Myself Choices Better Bad Goal

I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know.

Man Me You Go Know Drummer

The first time Rachie and I will be working together is on an episode of 'Doctor Who' specially written for us by Mark Gatiss. How lucky is that?

Time Working Together Together Doctor

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

Grief Better Lost Know Firefighters

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

Build Others Need Share Urban

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Myself Thoughts Problems Think Pride

I, for one, have a great momma.

Annaleigh Ashford

I was born and raised Catholic.

Born I Was Born Catholic Raised

I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.

Good Team Regret Think Leaving Over

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