Top 59 Quotes by Jose Saramago

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

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.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

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

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.