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 am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“El verbo leer, como el verbo amar y el verbo soñar, no soporta ‘el modo imperativo’. Yo siempre les aconsejé a mis… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — 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
![“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges , The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town , The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]” quote by Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85a/jorge-luis-borges-275_books_when-writers-die-they-become-books-which_1235779.jpg)
![“I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of 'obligatory pleasure'? Pleasure is not obligatory, pleasure is something we seek. 'Obligatory happiness'! [...] If a book bores you, leave it; don’t read it because…” quote by Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f6/jorge-luis-borges-275_books_i-believe-that-the-phrase-obligatory-rea_2334935.jpg)
