Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are …

- Miguel Syjuco

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

- Miguel Syjuco

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cath…

- Miguel Syjuco

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

- Miguel Syjuco

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a sing…

- Miguel Syjuco

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any r…

- Miguel Syjuco

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

- Miguel Syjuco

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

- Miguel Syjuco

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

- Miguel Syjuco