Jose Saramago Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.”

“The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.”

“The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.”

“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”

“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.”

“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.”

“Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.”

“At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.”

“I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.”

“The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.”