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“All literature is an assault on boundaries”
Franz Kafka – Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic)
“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t”
Phillip Roth – USA
“I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.”
Albert Memmi – Tunisia
“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation “
Elias Canetti, Bulgaria
“Translation is like kissing through a veil”
Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Israel
“As long as the poem doesn’t abandom me, the lead won’t vanquish me, as long as I remain, surrounded by death, living as a poet, my tribulations will be redeemed and repaired”.
Abraham Sutzkever, Israel/Poland
“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”
Irène Némirovsky, France
“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
Claris Lispektor, Brazil
“Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.”
Natalia Ginzburg, Italy
“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life”
Emma Lazarus, USA
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story”
Isaac Babel, USSR
“Languages were created only so that human beings would not understand each other”
Shmuel Yosef (Shai) Agnon, Israel
“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss”
Paul Celan, Germany