Tag Archives: Jose Saramago

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan. Jose Saramago

I am not a prophet. Jose Saramago

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

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

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. Jose Saramago

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

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. Jose Saramago

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity – a novel, for example – I write every day. Jose Saramago

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic – the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. Jose Saramago

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