Conception Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

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I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written.

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“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

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The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of…

— John Dos Passos

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— Flannery O'Connor

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

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