Enrique Vila-Matas

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn__ deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies_ Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".