F. Sionil José Quotes

You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.

To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter - only the present, the awareness of the deadening rot which surrounds and suffocates us, and what we must do to vanquish it.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.