“One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobio...” — Carlos Fuentes Quote

“One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.”

“I love having critics for breakfast.”

“The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.”

“My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.”

“I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.”

“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”