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.” ― Carlos Fuentes

“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its own birth. In doing so, modernity is that fashionable illusion which only speaks to death”
― Carlos Fuentes, Aura 

 

“I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public, I’m looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.”
― Carlos Fuentes