top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Authorship quotes
"I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did."
"To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while."
"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."
"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
"We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"Authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world."
Explore more quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
"All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know."
"Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory."
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
"There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music."
"He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it."
bottom of page