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.
From Carlos Fuentes
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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 what it means to be a Mexican.
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
I love having critics for breakfast.
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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