"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
HistoryView Quote
"I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.“
-Carlos Fuentes
posted in Morning
Other Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
Discover more inspiring quotes by Carlos Fuentes
"I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination."
-Carlos Fuentes
ImaginationView Quote
"I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination."
-Carlos Fuentes
ImaginationView Quote
"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."
-Carlos Fuentes
FreedomView Quote
"I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family."
-Carlos Fuentes
FamilyView Quote
"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
ExperienceView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
MorningView Quote
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
-Marcus Aurelius
MorningView Quote
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
-Ray Bradbury
MorningView Quote
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
-Groucho Marx
MorningView Quote
"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
-Anne Tyler
MorningView Quote
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
-Ray Bradbury
MorningView Quote