Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
– Camilo Jose Cela
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
– Camilo Jose Cela
The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.
– Camilo Jose Cela
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
– Camilo Jose Cela
Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.