Borges

Famous quotes containing the word borges:

    A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time—this one, for instance—as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    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 (1899–1986)

    The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)