Antonio Munoz Molina

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties,…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

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…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“Nada es más difícil que aprender a mirar a alguien, a ser mirado de cerca por otro.”

— Antonio Muñoz Molina

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom…

— Antonio Muñoz Molina

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

There are two types of stories: public and private.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons.…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

— Antonio Munoz Molina