Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things…

I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about…

— Allison Joseph

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in…

— Sandra Cisneros

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a…

— Paul Auster

“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge…

— William H. Gass

“Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human.”

— Joshua Foer

“Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As…

— Stacey D'Erasmo

“The hours I spent in this anachronistic, bibliophile, Anglophile retreat were in surreal contrast to the shrieking horror show that was being enacted in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all…

— Michel Foucault

“Sanjala sam da sam J.L.Borges, koji je nekim čudom uskrsnuo, progledao, lupio se dlanom po čelu i brzo pretvorio u - Paula Coelha.”

— Dubravka Ugrešić

One should read Borges more.

— Roberto Bolano

I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of Jorge Luis…

— Caterina Fake

“Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like…

— Federico Fellini

From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and…

— August Wilson