“The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.” FormAttitudeAliensCharacteristicsInsolentHaughtiness Author:Jose Saramago
“What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?” WorldHumansKindDoeHuman BeingsMachinesKillingMarsColonizing Mars Author:Jose Saramago
“Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.” FactsPleasureOur LivesFascinationFacts Of LifeMorbid Author:Jose Saramago
“I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.” PoetNovelistsPoeticPlaywrightEssayists Author:Jose Saramago
“I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.” PersonsHabitPrizeReceivingNobelNobel PrizeRegularityGmos Author:Jose Saramago
“I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.” WritingAbleOrderTravelDegreesDestinationFunny TravelSelectUsefulness 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
“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.” NeedsUseMightLanguageTinyBedtime 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
“The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.” NeedsMiddleMilitaryEastMiddle EastEasterAsiaGatewaysInstallationUzbekistan Author:Jose Saramago