Borges Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in… — John Barth
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the… — Edward Abbey
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. — Jorge Luis Borges
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if… — Stacey D'Erasmo
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I… — Alan Lightman
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing… — Alberto Manguel
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke. — John Hodgman
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power… — Paulo Coelho
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, â€œare not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents… — Ursula K. Le Guin
One should read Borges more. — Roberto Bolano
This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those… — Georges Perec
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To… — Joshua Foer
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden. — August Wilson
I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention… — Mohsin Hamid

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