When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
“Nada es más difícil que aprender a mirar a alguien, a ser mirado de cerca por otro.” — Antonio Muñoz Molina Copy Share Image
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor -… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
“You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might… — Antonio Muñoz Molina Copy Share Image
I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
