To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
Augusto Roa BastosWhat happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them
Augusto Roa BastosThe great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.
Augusto Roa BastosThere were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
Augusto Roa Bastos