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…
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Carlos Fuentes
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About Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican novelist, essayist and ambassador to France. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Me…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Carlos FuentesI am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know w…
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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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