12 Great Quotes Said By Spanish Authors Published October 24, 2018 “In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.” -Pablo Neruda WATCH: A Spanish Couple Explains How Tapas Are Different In Spain “A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.” -Gabriel García Márquez “There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote “I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake” – Federico García-Lorca “Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.” -Javier Marías “In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.” -Mario Vargas Llosa “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” -Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.” -Jorge Luis Borges “Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.” -Isabel Allende “Men shout to avoid listening to one another.” -Miguel de Unamuno “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” -Roberto Bolaño, 2666 “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.” -Rosalia de Castro