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
  • Air
  • Never

• 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

• Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Help

• Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

  

  Alex Graves
  • Different

• In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Heart
  • Party
  • Morning

• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Live
  • Flower

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

  

  Jose Saramago