Quotes by Borges, Jorge Luis

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our concept >>

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they >>

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary fla >>

Quotations about Literature

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors >>

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requir >>

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, sin >>

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

Borges, Jorge Luis