Carmen Boullosa Quotes

Mexico, Writer
September 4, 1954

Carmen Boullosa is a Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. It has been praised by a number of writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto, Roberto Bolaño and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly

In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.

Carmen Boullosa
- Sin
- Novel
- Worship
Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

Carmen Boullosa
- People
- Death
- Running

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

Carmen Boullosa
- Writing
- Language
- Humans
I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

Carmen Boullosa
- Angel
- Desert
- Arms
Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.

Carmen Boullosa
- Women
- Political
- Space
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

Carmen Boullosa
- Way
- Stories
- Novel
The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Carmen Boullosa
- World
- Names