Saramago Books Quotes & Sayings

Here's to the thorn in the flower! — D.H. Lawrence

If you will it, it is no dream.'" "I like that ... Who said it?" "Theodore Herzl. — Zack Love

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. — Jose Saramago

Reading is probably another way of being in a place. — Jose Saramago

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. — Jose Saramago

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader. — Pol Pot

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all. — Jose Saramago

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago. — Karen Thompson Walker

Prioritizing obedience in the face of stress is a wonderful way to disarm it. — Rachel Jankovic

Leaders set the agenda for the future. — Bob Anderson

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose Saramago

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits. — Jose Saramago

What is your name, Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist. — Jose Saramago