Jose Saramago Quotes

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Jose Saramago

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• I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

  

  M.I.A.
  • War
  • Happy
  • Society

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Creation

• Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Moment

• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Never
  • Air

• I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

  

  Xenophon
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Remember

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Couple
  • Pride

• I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • Death
  • Abortion

• Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Value
  • Criticism
  • Welcome

• When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

  

  Victor Spinetti
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Out

• I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Money
  • Desire

• Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Think
  • Pressure

• Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Environment
  • Everything

• My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• ...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

  

  Karl Popper
  • May

• Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder, die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Die

• The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

  

  John Ambrose Fleming
  • World

• If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Love
  • Hope

• The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

  

  David Letterman
  • Today
  • Funeral

• Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Jesus

• Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Old
  • Self-realization
  • Elaboration

• I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

  

  Jose Saramago