Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Quote by Jose Saramago

Topics: Writers Quotes

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies,...

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies,...

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for...

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for...

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about...

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is...

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and...

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with...

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a...

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a...

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the...

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the...

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank...

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank...

Americans have discovered fear.

Americans have discovered fear.

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature:...

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature:...

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a...

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...