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. Milan Kundera Read Quote
A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. Milan Kundera Read Quote
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. Milan Kundera Read Quote
I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. Milan Kundera Read Quote
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. Milan Kundera Read Quote
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. Milan Kundera Read Quote
Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain. Milan Kundera Read Quote
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length. Milan Kundera Read Quote
