Rigoberto Tiglao Quotes

#1. I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#2. I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#3. I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#4. Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#5. Revision is a good impulse to have. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#6. I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#7. One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#8. Unlike my dead lover, I refuse to/ choose the day I shock the world. There's no/ mystery left in suicide. The challenge is, my love,/ to keep yourself awake/ despite the sleeping pill doses of sickness and/ despair. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#9. I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#10. Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material. #Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

#11. Why did you spend your whole life working in an insurance company? You should have been a painter, a musician, well, I don't know. Why didn't you follow your calling?"

Don Rigoberto nodded and reflected a moment before answering.

"Because I was a coward, son," he finally murmured. "Because I lacked faith in myself. I never believed I had the talent to be a real artist. But maybe that was an excuse for not trying. I decided not to be a creator but only a consumer of art, a dilettante of culture. Because I was a coward is the sad truth. So now you know. Don't follow my example. Whatever your calling is, follow it as far as you can and don't do what I did, don't betray it. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa