For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
Jose SaramagoThe possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
Jose SaramagoIf you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
Jose SaramagoThe wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
Jose Saramago...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
Jose SaramagoWe are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.
Jose Saramago