“Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.” IfsWritingPersonsI CanSometimesAbleNovelFourFeetProduceChairsStableBalanced Author:Jose Saramago
“The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.” DreamNovelImpossibleSubjectsPossibilityIllusionImpossible Dream Author: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.” KnowsWritingNovelKnow HowEffectsNovelistsEssaysEssayists Author:Jose Saramago
“The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.” SpaceNovelSeaRiversFilledGenreGenre IsLiterary Genre Author:Jose Saramago
“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.” WritingNovelExampleContinuity Author: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.” WritingBelieveFactsArtistI BelieveNovelInfluenceCitizensMusicianPaintPainterNovelists Author: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.” MenWritingStillsPastForgetNovelFrustratedDesperationImpossibilityForgetfulness Author:Jose Saramago
