The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words. — 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
The so-called world knows everything about Slobodan Milosevic. The so-called world knows the truth. But I don't know the truth. But I watch. I… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
