“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — 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
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
“Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — 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
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — 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
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 writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — 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
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. — 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
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — 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
Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader. — 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
