Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
“My father also told me that people had always suffered from being tied to the ground, from not being able to detach themselves from… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“Man is reluctant to accept that his life has come to a conclusion in that most important respect, that his hopes have been fulfilled.… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche of useless… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does their language.” — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
