42 Quotes by Antonio Muñoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

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.

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.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.