I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.

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• Peter Handke:

  I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, m

• Peter Handke:

  My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

• Peter Handke:

  Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose -

• Peter Handke:

  Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.

• Peter Handke:

  Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Ju

• Peter Handke:

  On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs - much more as the huge room

• Peter Handke:

  The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do jus

• Peter Handke:

  Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.

• Peter Handke:

  You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, t

• Peter Handke:

  There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one