Jorge Edwards

"To write about suffering is to honor those who suffer."

"Every person is a universe waiting to be explored."

"The imagination requires no passport."

"Patency in the face of injustice is complicity."

"The novel saved me when nothing else could."

"Words are seeds; we never know where they will grow."

"To be alive is to be perpetually haunted by possibilities."

"The past is a mirror in which we see ourselves."

"Art is the only honest testimony of human existence."

"Language builds the walls and tears them down."

"A story well-told is a resurrection."

"The writer's isolation is necessary for the creation of beauty."

"Memory distorts, but emotion reveals truth."

"To question is to be human; to question deeply is to be a writer."

"The novel is where we confess what we cannot say."

"In writing, we are always writing against death."

"Compassion is the first law of literature."

"The greatest revolution is internal, in the human soul."

"Every character is a fragment of the author's self."

"Silence before speech is the mark of wisdom."

"To love a country is to witness it faithfully."

"The page absorbs what the heart cannot hold."

"Language is the house where meaning lives."

"The writer is always searching for the words that don't exist."

"Doubt is the crucible in which truth is forged."

"Every story is a conversation between writer and reader."

"The past lives in us more than we live in the present."

"To write is to plant a flag in the infinite."

"Grief transforms into art, art transforms into meaning."

"The imagination is the last free country."