--- title: "1 Adults Books Quotes By César Aira" description: "1 Adults Books quotes by César Aira. Plus more from César Aira and more Adults Books sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d3/c-sar-aira-16173_books_literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books_2526969.png" --- > [“Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books-are-toys-for-adults-who-have/) [césar aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d3/c-sar-aira-16173_books_literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books_2526969.png) ## More by César Aira > [“Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/each-of-us-is-the-ultimate-expert-on-the-gentleness-and-understanding/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“It is not that I am a genius or exceptionally gifted, not by any means. Quite the contrary. What Happened (I shall try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/it-is-not-that-i-am-a-genius-or-exceptionally-gifted-not-by-any-means/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/a-reader-of-mine-is-a-deluxe-reader-not-because-i-m-so-great-but/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/each-instant-was-different-and-new-and-unrepeatable-that-was-the-very/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/forgetting-is-like-a-great-alchemy-free-of-secrets-limpid/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/changing-the-subject-is-one-of-the-most-difficult-arts-to-master-the/) [Cesar Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/why-is-it-that-drama-always-starts-late-whereas-comedy-always-seems/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“Were the “pampas,” perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/were-the-pampas-perhaps-flatter-than-the-land-they-were-crossing-he/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“En suma: si decía que estaba solo, no era más que porque no tenía con quién hablar.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/en-suma-si-dec-a-que-estaba-solo-no-era-m-s-que-porque-no-ten-a-con/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book has, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/after-thirty-years-working-as-a-commercial-fiction-translator-i-ve/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/literature-is-the-queen-of-the-arts-the-greatest-of-them-all-because/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“So familiar that it didn't even register in the conversation; but it did reappear when I laid it out on the table of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/so-familiar-that-it-didn-t-even-register-in-the-conversation-but-it/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like this be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/a-bird-flashed-across-the-empty-sky-a-cart-immobile-on-the-horizon/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/he-couldn-t-believe-that-sleep-had-robbed-him-of-this-spectacle-night/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) > [“The true vanguardist is unnaceptable, infamous and illegible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/the-true-vanguardist-is-unnaceptable-infamous-and-illegible/) [César Aira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-sar-aira/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults-books/c-sar-aira/#itemlist", "name": "1 Adults Books Quotes By César Aira", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "César Aira" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-sar-aira/literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books-are-toys-for-adults-who-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d3/c-sar-aira-16173_books_literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books_2526969.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d3/c-sar-aira-16173_books_literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books_2526969.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d3/c-sar-aira-16173_books_literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books_2526969.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.” — césar aira", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults-books/c-sar-aira/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults-books/c-sar-aira/", "name": "Adults Books Quotes by César Aira", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults-books/c-sar-aira/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d3/c-sar-aira-16173_books_literature-is-a-toy-for-adults-my-books_2526969.png" }, "description": "1 Adults Books quotes by César Aira. 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