Quotes About Matas

#1. When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#2. Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all?
- Rivka

Carol Matas

#3. The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing that doesn't suit a novelist in action, when he's in the course of writing his novel.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#4. It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.

Jack Paar

#5. Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#6. As for sex. Well, of course I could've had sex. Guys will have sex with a watermelon if they're desperate enough. Lots of girls try to prove their love by having sex. It only proves they're having sex.

Carol Matas

#7. I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#8. After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

John Griffin Carlisle

#9. Will you be all right? she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.

Carol Matas

#10. It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

Viktor Yushchenko

#11. I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

Elaine Stritch

#12. I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?

Enrique Vila-Matas

#13. To miniaturize is also to conceal.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#14. Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#15. As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#16. The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

Ray Bradbury

#17. (S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop.
- Ruth

Carol Matas

#18. I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Deborah Bull

#19. He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#20. After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?

Enrique Vila-Matas

#21. has been done deliberately. In a clear-line comic-book such as the

Matas, Toni

#22. I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#23. you put yourself in the right place tomorrow by networking today with your colleagues and friends.

Joe Sweeney

#24. I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#25. I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one.
- Ruth

Carol Matas

#26. (B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you?
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#27. There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.

Chad Urmston

#28. Goals are only important if they win games.

Leo Messi

#29. As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#30. I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#31. It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#32. The heart wants what it wants.

Woody Allen

#33. The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.

Tom Robbins