Famous Carlos Fuentes Quotes

  • Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

    Writing is a struggle against silence.– Carlos Fuentes

  • Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. – Carlos Fuentes

    Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.– Carlos Fuentes

  • Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. – Carlos Fuentes

    Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.– Carlos Fuentes

  • Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword. – Carlos Fuentes

    Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.– Carlos Fuentes

  • Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature. – Carlos Fuentes

    Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.– Carlos Fuentes

  • Power does not alter a man’s character. It merely reveals it. – Carlos Fuentes

    Power does not alter a man’s character. It merely reveals it.– Carlos Fuentes