Top 75 Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.