#rite

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#future #good #good idea #i #idea

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#great #mentioned #mexican #mexico #novels

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#down #fall #going #just #like

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#black #caribbean #history #indian #latino

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. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#actual experience #already #any #bad #based

I'm a writer, not a genre. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #writer

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#human #i #learned #much #writer

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

— Carlos Fuentes

#felt #i #i always #inside #little

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 for the next day's writing. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#am #back #come #day #go

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#book #down #head #i #must