Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
Journalist
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Panamá
Like
Biography
Biographies
Autobiography
Puts
Words
Write
Death
Etch
Writing
Gravestone

More quotes by Carlos Fuentes

Image
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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
Image
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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
Image
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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
Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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
Image
I need, therefore I imagine.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
Image
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
Carlos Fuentes