all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
Jose SaramagoThe period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose SaramagoThe worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
Jose SaramagoThat is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
Jose Saramago