Like a blazing comet, I’ve traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. Antonio Tabucchi Read Quote
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they’re more energetic – they aren’t robots. Antonio Tabucchi Read Quote
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. Antonio Tabucchi Read Quote
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it’s very important to defend this idea in real life too. Antonio Tabucchi Read Quote
When you have a foreign invasion – in this case by the Indonesian army – writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. Antonio Tabucchi Read Quote
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. Antonio Tabucchi Read Quote
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. Antonio Tabucchi Read Quote
