Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York. — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.” — Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel Copy Share Image
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the… — Joe Darion Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. […] If the same… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.” — Aubrey F.G. Bell Copy Share Image
“[He] looked exactly like Michael's idea of Don Quixote, 'the luminary and mirror of all knight-errantry', and for that gentle and melancholy… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory— Terra Nostra.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their hearts For he is an… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“She left my world spinning like windmills on the plains of la Mancha.” — Stephen Brooke Copy Share Image
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.” — Henry Gratton Doyle Copy Share Image
“While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
