La Vida Quote by 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 se empeña…

— 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 when I'm…

— 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 I want…

— 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 voyage seul,…

— 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 for two…

— 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 am subdued…

— 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 is nothing…

— 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,…

— 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 done, what…

— Enrique Vila-Matas