Borges Quotes

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

— Allison Joseph

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

— 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…

— Paul Auster

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

— William H. Gass

“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…

— Stacey D'Erasmo

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

— Michel Foucault

One should read Borges more.

— Roberto Bolano

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

— Federico Fellini

One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely…

— Larry Howes

I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that…

— Lee Klein

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into…

— Edward Abbey

The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted…

— Jorge Valdano

“A mí no me gusta que la gente me haga confidencias, porque mientras me dicen cosas importantísimas pienso en otra cosa y…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“But if I accept these conditions," said Fosti, "what shall be the compensation of the king of Norway, my ally 'i" "…

— Walter Scott

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.…

— Theodora Goss

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing…

— Peter Greenaway

There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read…

— Sandra Cisneros

“The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was…

— Jorge Luis Borges

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my…

— John Barth

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.…

— Simon Rich

“Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is…

— Jorge Luis Borges