Carlos Fuentes citations
Carlos Fuentes
Date de naissance: 11. novembre 1928
Date de décès: 15. mai 2012
Carlos Fuentes Macías, né à Panama le 11 novembre 1928 et mort le 15 mai 2012 à Mexico, est un écrivain et essayiste mexicain.
Citations Carlos Fuentes
„Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.“
— Carlos Fuentes
"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 27.
„The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.“
— Carlos Fuentes
"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 5.
„What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.“
— Carlos Fuentes
"To See Ourselves as Others See Us", in Time, June 16, 1986.
„No government functions without the grease of corruption.“
— Carlos Fuentes
La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
„The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.“
— Carlos Fuentes
Describing a Mexican baroque church
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
„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
As quoted in International Herald Tribune (Paris, 5 November 1991)
„If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.“
— Carlos Fuentes
"Doing It Our Way", New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
„Describing Hugo Chavez“
— Carlos Fuentes
Quoted in The Economist, 19 May 2012, p. 90
„[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.“
— Carlos Fuentes
Quoted in Anne-Marie O'Connor, [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future",] Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
„Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."“
— Carlos Fuentes
About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he praised the Cuban Revolution; as quoted by Anne-Marie O'Connor, [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future",] Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
