“If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today’s newspaper.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may… — 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… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more… — 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
“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young… — 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
“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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. — 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
![“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)
