Ismail Kadaré quotes

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. (Ismail Kadaré)
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world? View quote
Ismail Kadaré
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
And everything would be different, different. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
Can one move an empire as if it were a house? View quote
Ismail Kadaré
Can a country's people be better than its planes? View quote
Ismail Kadaré
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance. View quote
Ismail Kadaré