Carlos Fuentes Quote

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.


As quoted in International Herald Tribune (Paris, 5 November 1991)


I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.