Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Literature

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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Literature

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

Jorge Luis Borges

Important, Literature, Way

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reading, Finals, Literature

"Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

Jorge Luis Borges

Book, Simple, Literature

Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Literature

"Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life, Literature, Tolerable

"Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Jorge Luis Borges

Order, Literature, Causes

"Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.