Quote by Carlos Fuentes
Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

Other quotes by 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 days writing. – Carlos Fuentes

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Morning
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont 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

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Freedom
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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

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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Writing

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Writing

It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Writing

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I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. Thats what happens in all interviews. – Geoff Hoon

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