Carlos Fuentes

"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."

"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."

"I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family."

"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."

"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."

"I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination."