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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.
— Jorge Luis Borges
We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.
— Jorge Luis Borges
If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.
— Jorge Luis Borges
All writing is dreaming
— Jorge Luis Borges
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.
— James K. Polk
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
— Jorge Luis Borges
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.
— William H Gass
Poetry is given to the poet. I don't think a poet can sit down at will and write. If he does, nothing worthwhile can come of it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
— Sophie Swetchine
The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot. — Adrienne Rich
Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
A writer's work is the product of laziness.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is only a guided dream.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Every life has a beginning, a middle, and an end; dissect history and you'll see the word that defines it as a tale, a narrative.
— Jodi Picoult
What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
— Jorge Luis Borges
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ...
— Jorge Luis Borges
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Tom remembered standing there beside her, in font of that field covered in snow, and falling in love.
— Andrew Kaufman
Maybe we do go home, finally.
— Anne Rice
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
— Jorge Luis Borges
You do realize that you completely 'threw Kyle under the bus,' I told him. 'Like threw him under and then put it in reverse
— Shelly Crane
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
— Jorge Luis Borges
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly. — Jorge Luis Borges
Love is simply is.
— Paulo Coelho
