Miguel Esteves Cardoso
I think that people’s autobiographies should start with the present. I am a happy person, in love with Maria João, with whom I have lived for over 20 years. I have wanted to be a writer ever since I can remember reading – long after I learned how to want to – and I am happy to write every day for the people who make and read the Público newspaper. It’s not easy to write every day – but the obligation to write is good. For those who have never written a diary, it is strange how many things happen to us. And the sadness and other qualities of such things that we would otherwise never mention. It was here, in Público, in large print, that I found the compass of my heart. When things went wrong, after being written here, it was almost like a punishment for the pleasure they gave me.