Enrique Vila-Matas

“Citar es respirar literatura para no ahogarse entre los tópicos castizos y ocurrentes que le vienen a uno a la pluma cuando…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“Quand on voyage avec quelqu’un, me dit-il, on a toujours tendance à trouver ce qui nous entoure étrange, tandis que si on…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“La literatura me ha permitido siempre comprender la vida. Pero precisamente por eso me deja fuera de ella.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“Escrever é corrigir a vida”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“ - Estou apaixonado porque vocês me falaram do amor. Nunca me teria apaixonado se não me fizessem interessar pelo tema." -…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“No le doy ningún valor a mi vida, sólo a las vidas ajenas, y pese a ello amo la vida, pero la…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“Viajar, perder ciudades, perderlos todos.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader.…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and…

— Enrique Vila-Matas