Ask questions Quote by Milan Kundera

“I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with…

— Milan Kundera

“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote…

— Milan Kundera

“people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.”

— Richard B. McKenzie

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“As I started to feel more comfortable, I wanted to get to know these guys. I asked each of them to tell me his…

— Noah Galloway

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“The author respectfully dedicates this book to everyone who is almost as smart as they think they are.”

— Matthew Stover

“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel…

— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world, but they…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that…

— Kris Saknussemm