I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. – Carlos Fuentes
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. – Carlos Fuentes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. – Carlos Fuentes
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. – Carlos Fuentes
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. – Carlos Fuentes
I dont think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. – Carlos Fuentes
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: theyre casting, theyre dressing the scene, theyre working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and theyre also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. – John le Carre