Quotes by Borges My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden. August Wilson borges four influence My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke. John Hodgman borges superhero writing My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. Jorge Luis Borges borges taught age I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g. Lee Klein borges literature writing One should read Borges more. Roberto Bolano borges should