What to write?

What to write? 
I don't know. 


We write what sticks to us. 
We write what we see.    
We write what we remember.
We write what we feel. 
We write what happened or what we wished had happened. 


And, in the end, we write what has already been written. Then, we start all over again.

Last Friday, the extremely talented Jose Saramago died. The Portuguese writer, journalist, poet, and screenwriter's most outstanding accomplishments include winning the Nobel Prize of Literature and having his novel turned into the movie "Blindness." (check out the trailer below)





Here are couple of his quotes that stuck with me:
"The wisest man I ever met in my whole life could not read or write," he said upon receiving the Nobel Prize in 1998, citing his grandfather, an illiterate.
                                        
"Death is the inventor of God"


"The only real progress is moral progress. The rest is simply having more or fewer goods."




"O homem mais sábio que conheci em toda a minha vida não sabia ler nem escrever", disse ao receber o Prêmio Nobel, em 1998, citando o avô, analfabeto.   


"A morte é a inventora de Deus."


"O único progresso verdadeiro é o progresso moral. O resto é simplesmente ter mais ou menos bens."




Dedicated to this post:


"We are all writers. Just some write and others don't."


"Somos todos escritores, só que alguns escrevem e outros não."