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I am a writer and not a judge.
I'm a conservative classical writer.
We behave as if being alone were a problem.
Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.
My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.
I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.
Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.
The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Why don't people just open... my works instead of accusing me?
No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.
Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.
Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.
When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work.
I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims.
There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.
The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.
You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.
I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of a writer was not so hopeless, not so bad.
On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs - much more as the huge room of an orphaned, yes, an orphaned, abandoned child.
I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!
The so-called world knows everything about Slobodan Milosevic. The so-called world knows the truth. But I don't know the truth. But I watch. I feel. I remember. I question.
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.