The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
Jose SaramagoThat is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
Jose SaramagoThe novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose SaramagoWe live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
Jose Saramago