“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for...” — Jose Saramago Quote

“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”

“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.”

“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.”

“Somos cada vez mais, os defeitos que temos, não as qualidades”

“Quien planta un árbol tampoco sabe si acabará ahorcándose en él”

“The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.”

“I'm very pernickety about cast and make-up. Continuity things can go dreadfully wrong in film; the beards are different, red waistcoats become blue.”

“Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.”

“At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.”

“Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.”

“A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.”