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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

~Jose Saramago

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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

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I am not a prophet.

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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

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I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

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Americans have discovered fear.

~Jose Saramago

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Biography

Nationality: Portuguese

Type: Writer

Born: November 16th, 1922

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