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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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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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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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I have never sought the reason why I write. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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