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Jose Saramago quotes about writing

Portuguese Writer November 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010

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Jose Saramago quote: "If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you...."
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or..."
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. Jose Saramago
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved, it's the citizen who changes things. I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Jose Saramago
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. Jose Saramago
In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, nor is it now, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all. Jose Saramago
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret,..."
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. Jose Saramago
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. Jose Saramago

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