“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.” — 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 fall during which he doesn’t know where or whether it will come to an end, and… — Ivan Klima 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
