When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.


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Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege...
CARLOS FUENTES
They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.
TITO FUENTES
Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fe...
CARLOS FUENTES
Women want to look sexy. They want to look stylish, and there's no reason why you can't be just as s...
DAISY FUENTES
Writing is a struggle against silence.
CARLOS FUENTES
It's an opportunity to represent Merced as well. Everybody is real proud of me being a local guy and...
BRIAN FUENTES
I would not say I was surprised with the success I had. I have worked hard and I expect to do well. ...
BRIAN FUENTES
He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get hi...
QUINTEN FUENTES
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been broug...
CARLOS FUENTES
The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the pheno...
CARLOS FUENTES
They were determined. I tell them that beam, more than anything, is just mental. It's just a matter ...
CARLOS FUENTES
Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the f...
CARLOS FUENTES
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
CARLOS FUENTES
— ¿Y por qué no vives siempre con nosotros como antes, mamacita?
— Porque ahora tu mamaci...
CARLOS FUENTES
It was a little surreal that the bleeding never stopped.
BRIAN FUENTES
all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel wo...
CARLOS FUENTES
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is a...
CARLOS FUENTES
He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did n...
CARLOS FUENTES
I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je j...
CARLOS FUENTES
- No hace falta ir a la Villa, porque la madrecita santa anda suelta por todos lados
CARLOS FUENTES
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
CARLOS FUENTES
Y luego el patecal ése, que no te pudo salvar con sus medicinas, aunque tú ni las necesitabas, pue...
CARLOS FUENTES
I go to the stores a lot and I talk to my customers a lot and the biggest demand was for petite and ...
DAISY FUENTES
I decided to make news, not give it.
DAISY FUENTES
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...
CARLOS FUENTES
Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal ord...
CARLOS FUENTES
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest ...
CARLOS FUENTES
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, huma...
CARLOS FUENTES
Unfaßbar das erste Tier, das von einem anderen träumte. Ungeheuerlich das erste Wirbeltier, dem es...
CARLOS FUENTES
Der Autor muß eine Fülle von Varitionen über das ausgewählte Thema bieten, die Entscheidungsmög...
CARLOS FUENTES
La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentació...
CARLOS FUENTES
Hay que morir antes de renacer.
CARLOS FUENTES
Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. ...
CARLOS FUENTES
The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...
CARLOS FUENTES
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
CARLOS FUENTES
I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
CARLOS FUENTES
I'm a writer, not a genre.
CARLOS FUENTES
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
CARLOS FUENTES
I have no literary fears.
CARLOS FUENTES
Work is what saves you.
CARLOS FUENTES
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
CARLOS FUENTES
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
CARLOS FUENTES
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
CARLOS FUENTES
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
CARLOS FUENTES
The real bombs are my books, not me.
CARLOS FUENTES
Don't classify me, read me.
CARLOS FUENTES
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
CARLOS FUENTES