Top 34 Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

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.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

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.

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.