I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
“Once the writer was at the deathbed of a fellow writer. What interested his dying colleague more than anything else was what… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image