Jorge Luis Borges Literature Quotations

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

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.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

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

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.

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.

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

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