Top 59 Quotes by Jose Saramago

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

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.

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

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

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.