The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — 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
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
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
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 don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I… — 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'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
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
If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — 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
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something… — 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, 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
“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
“ Boast of Quietness Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.… — 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
I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual… — 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
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality… — 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
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
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
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
“The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic… — 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
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
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
“If I could live again - I will travel light, If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet at the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share
