Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes Macías (born 1928-11-11) is a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright and critic. He has taught in several American and British universities, and has served as his country’s ambassador to France.
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- What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
- The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
- "How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 5.
- Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
- "How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 27.
