And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my rela…

- Juan Goytisolo

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, o…

- Juan Goytisolo

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

- Juan Goytisolo

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined …

- Juan Goytisolo

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

- Juan Goytisolo

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feeling…

- Juan Goytisolo

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

- Juan Goytisolo

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustic…

- Juan Goytisolo

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassione…

- Juan Goytisolo