Antonio Tabucchi Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.”

“The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.”

“I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.”

“My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.”

“Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.”

“An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.”

“When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.”

“I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.”

“As a writer, I've always been interested in others.”

“I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.”