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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

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke. — John Hodgman

Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals. — Roopleen

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

When I met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always — Rita Rudner

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

There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door,
going sixty-five miles an hour. — Izzy Stradlin

Be courageous. Get out of your comfort zone to live fully and abundantly. — Debasish Mridha

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 me
and treating me badly. — Jorge Luis Borges

Love is simply is. — Paulo Coelho

some twenty more miles on an old two-lane country road. Traffic was light, just a couple of pickups and a Volkswagen, — Catherine Coulter