Milan Kundera

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.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

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.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

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