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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

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

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Experience
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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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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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Writing

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener

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Writing
[G]usto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. Moreover, any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore (1887–1972), lecture, 1948

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Writing

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. – Francis Bacon

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Writing

Random Quotes

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions. – Omar Bradley

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Military, the

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland. – Michael D. Higgins

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Hope

Angels patch the holes in our hearts. – Terri Guillemets

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Angels

So thats why one of my rules of parody writing is that its gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. – Al Yankovic

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funny