Words matter. These are the best Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn’t been translated into Spanish.
A writer doesn’t write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
There are two types of stories: public and private.
The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.
Nothing good ever happens by itself – it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you’re on permanent trial.
The ’80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor – they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
I’m afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.
People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.
The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.
I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.
