Antonio Tabucchi Italian Writer Quotations

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.