Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#fuentes #genre #writing #writer

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#inspirational

Writing is a struggle against silence. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#writing-process

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#immigration #refugees #diversity

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

#love #love

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#death #writing #death

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#art

Deja que toda tu nostalgia emigre, todos tus cabos sueltos; comienza, todos los días en el parto. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#inspirational

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#narrative #story #freedom

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#attention #respect #life