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

Carlos Fuentes · Imagination

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Carlos Fuentes

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.

Freedom

Carlos Fuentes

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

Family

Carlos Fuentes

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.

Morning

Carlos Fuentes

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

Experience