Quote by Josip Novakovich

“Strangely enough, I am beginning to feel like an exile when I go to a polling station in PA and people hold placards approving…

— Josip Novakovich

“MY FATHER TRIED IT. In Daruvar, Croatia, he bought a piano, sat my oldest brother at it, and hired a teacher. Whenever Vlado made…

— Josip Novakovich

“It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I’d never seen anybody in a library pick up a small…

— Josip Novakovich

“I was taught not to distinguish between patriotism and nationalism; the word patriotism was an attempt to present the same ugly nationalist phenomenon of…

— Josip Novakovich

“In the train, I read a special issue of Der Spiegel, about the Germans who had been driven out in ethnic cleansing campaigns at…

— Josip Novakovich

“He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed…

— Josip Novakovich

“But that did not make Mirko happy - the world was melting away; what was a grade compared with the world? He gazed through…

— Josip Novakovich

“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...”

— Josip Novakovich

“Enemies keep you alert, competitive, and friendships lull you into mediocrity, and through peer pressure, keep you back and down, and eventually, down and…

— Josip Novakovich

“Describing men, of course, I run into the same problems—aquiline nose, chiseled features, bullish neck, leonine hair, steely gaze, bronze tan—but somehow the arsenal…

— Josip Novakovich

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

“Diogenes heard a young man playing on the lute. The otherwise stoical philosopher seemed to be touched by the emotional music and he fought…

— Josip Novakovich