“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.” KnowsWritingMeanTodayDealsIdentityAbsolutesWho We AreMexicanAbsolute Freedom Author:Carlos Fuentes
“In literature, you know only what you imagine” KnowsWritingLiteratureImagine Book:This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life Source: This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life
“You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.” IfsKnowsLooksHappensEyePastRememberLyingBehindsHalfDarknessKnow HowHappenedYesterdayUsualBedroom Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency” KnowsFeelsChildrenYoungKnow HowIgnoranceStrangeCrueltyEldersStrange ThingsMalaiseInsufficiency Author:Carlos Fuentes
