641 Quotes by José Saramago

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

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.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

Americans have discovered fear.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.