A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a… — José Saramago Copy Share
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“E se as histórias para crianças passassem a ser de leitura obrigatória para os adultos? Seriam eles capazes de aprender realmente o que há… — José Saramago Copy Share
“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we shall be… — José Saramago Copy Share
“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into… — José Saramago Copy Share
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“... aborrece os odores nocturnos, aquelas expansões do corpo a que nem poetas escapam".” — José Saramago Copy Share
