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• The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

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• My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

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

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• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

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• I’ve lost audiences, I’ve recovered them.

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• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

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• I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

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• I love having critics for breakfast.

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• I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

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• I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

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• I have no literary fears.

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• I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I’m looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

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• 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.

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• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

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• I always felt a little worm inside me: ‘Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.’

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• Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

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• Don’t classify me, read me.

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• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she’s had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

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• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

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Birth:	11th November, 1928
Death:	15th May, 2012
Nationality:	Mexican
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Writer

About

Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama City, Panama. He is a Mexican essayist, novelist and writer. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo and Christopher Unborn. His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.

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