Top 24 Vila Matas Quotes
#1. 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
#3. When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.
Hunter Hayes
#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?
Enrique Vila-Matas
#8. I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
William Standish Knowles
#9. Also, I am not sure what you are teaching in your classroom, but Seb came home the other week talking about a healthy eating pyramid. I had to explain to him that pyramids are made of stone and therefore not edible, so I would appreciate your not filling his head with these fanciful notions.
David Thorne
#10. 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
#11. I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.
Maxwell
#13. They ended in death and that was the best part of it.
Laurelin Paige
#14. 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
#15. I've never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I've always belonged to what isn't where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn't mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me.
Fernando Pessoa
#16. 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
#17. I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.
Enrique Vila-Matas
#18. The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston
#19. 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
#20. Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself
So our condition makes escape impossible?
we breathe
and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle
Rodney Hall
#21. 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
#22. I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
Aaron Eckhart
#23. Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?
Sinan Antoon
#24. [On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.
Moms Mabley
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