Antonio Munoz Molina quotes

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial. (Antonio Munoz Molina)

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

Antonio Munoz Molina

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.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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

Antonio Munoz Molina

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.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. Its not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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

Antonio Munoz Molina

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.

Antonio Munoz Molina

There are two types of stories: public and private.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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. (Antonio Munoz Molina)

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

Antonio Munoz Molina