#2,988

Writing is the only way to distance oneself from the century in which it was one’s lot to be born.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,902

Perfect prose is prose which the ingenuous reader does not notice is well written.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#2,898

Words are born among the people, flourish among writers, and die in the mouth of the middle class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,834

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has been thrust into us up to the hilt.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,812

Political activity ceases to tempt the intelligent writer, when he finally understands that there is no intelligent text that will succeed in ousting even a small-town mayor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451

#2,771

Only he who suggests more than what he expresses can be reread.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,741

Certain ideas are only clear when formulated, but others are only clear when alluded to.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,711

No writer has ever been born who did not write too much.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

#2,705

Words are the true adventures of the authentic writer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,695

The imbecile is betrayed less by what he says than by his diction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,692

I have no pretensions to originality: the commonplace, if it is old, will do for me.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,682

Nothing is so important that it does not matter how it is written.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,636

The only indices of civilization are the clarity, lucidity, order, good manners of everyday prose.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,590

The writer who does not insist on convincing us wastes less of our time, and sometimes even convinces us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 419

#2,581

The modern writer forgets that only the allusion to the gestures of love captures its essence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 418

#2,574

The only pretension I have is that of not having written a linear book, but a concentric book.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 413

#2,554

The continuous discourse tends to conceal the breaks within being.
The fragment is the expression of honest thought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

#2,518

Words arrive one day in the hands of a patient writer like flocks of doves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 405

#2,511

A phrase should ruffle its wings like a falcon in captivity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 404

#2,507

To write honestly for the rest, one must write fundamentally for oneself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403