I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
