Milan Kundera Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”

“I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.”

“When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.”

“To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.”

“I find myself fascinating.”

“For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”

“Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.”

“Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.”

“I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.”

“He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.”