Works Quotes by Peter Handke

My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

— Peter Handke

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

— Peter Handke

Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is…

— Peter Handke

I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.

— Peter Handke

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

— Peter Handke

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

I am a writer and not a judge.

— Peter Handke

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

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

I'm a conservative classical writer.

— Peter Handke

I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.

— Peter Handke

I'm Austrian, but my mother was Slovenian.

— Peter Handke