Tibor Fischer Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.”

“When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.”

“As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.”

“I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.”

“Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.”

“Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.”

“One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.”

“You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.”