You are a writer, you have, as you said a moment ago, an obligation to know words, therefore you know that adjectives are of no use to us, if a person kills another, for example, it would be better to state this fact openly, directly, and to trust that the horror of this act, in itself, is so shocking that there is no need for us to say it was horrible, Do you mean that we have more words than we need, I mean that we have too few feelings, Or that we have them but cease to use the words they express, And so we loose them


José Saramago, (b. 1922) is a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. Blindness by Jose Saramago. English translation 1997. p.261-2