Juan Carlos Onetti Quotes & Sayings

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play — Juan Carlos Onetti

I am not a writer except when I write. — Juan Carlos Onetti

And this is more or less all that I had left after the holidays. Nothing really; hopeless confusion, a narrative without a possible conclusion, full of doubtful meanings, belied by the very elements that I had to give it shape. I didn't know the significance of what I'd seen, I was repelled by the idea of finding out and being sure. All that counts is that I felt at peace when I finished writing, certain I had enjoyed the greatest success one can expect from this kind of task: I had accepted a challenge, and turned at least one daily defeat into a victory. — Juan Carlos Onetti