Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.

— Noam Chomsky

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

— Victor Hugo

“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”

— René Girard

“I love the unanswered question, the unresolved story, the unclimbed mountain, the tender shard of an incomplete dream. Most of the time. But is…

— Arundhati Roy

“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It…

— Paul De Man

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

— Fernando Pessoa

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp…

— George Sand

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

— Matthew Specktor

“For better or worse, whether it is a sign of aesthetic complexity or of intellectual indecision, this novel [Frankenstein] offers equally fertile ground to…

— Richard T Nash

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are…

— Jorge Luis Borges