The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. Antonio Tabucchi More Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi More Quotes From Antonio Tabucchi My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. Antonio Tabucchi politicsjobslooks I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights. Antonio Tabucchi listsrightsdoubt I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. Antonio Tabucchi mixingcirclestelevision History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. Antonio Tabucchi bigsanimalhistory The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. Antonio Tabucchi mixturescivilizationinteresting Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. Antonio Tabucchi doctrineperfectionideas I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. Antonio Tabucchi claims A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected. Antonio Tabucchi bodyintellectualsoul Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. Antonio Tabucchi runningmuseumsthinking My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. Antonio Tabucchi engagementbookpeople I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. Antonio Tabucchi contradictionpeople In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. Antonio Tabucchi expressionmeancountry Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Antonio Tabucchi dreamdesirejobs 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 robotsdoubtpeople Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority. Antonio Tabucchi minorityhalfwarworld I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. Antonio Tabucchi mirrorfacelookpeople
