QUOTES

As for our facial expressions, be this ever so untypical of us Hungarians, we force them into a smile.
Pál Závada
Where we are is so horribly far away.
Lajos Parti Nagy
the slavery lies in freedom being this, / that not writing is, for some, such slavery / that they must write
Dezső Tandori
Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse – disguising, concealing, secreting, covering all that lies below the burning earth.
László Krasznahorkai
Everything you call transcendental and earthly is one and the same thing, existing together with you in a single time and single space.
László Krasznahorkai
Fortunately, only the sick and those with broken legs read the work of writers.
Gyula Krúdy
Even in its most threadbare of moments, the fabric of the law still binds the world.
Krisztina Tóth
...the angel is in the details.
György Petri
We need sacrifice in order to lose ourselves and find our identity.
Miklós Mészöly
The global economic crisis has a good effect on the health of the Hungarian writer. He writes less, because for what and for whom should he write, and anyway there is nowhere to write for, so he not only imagines a walk, and making love, but actually puts it into practice.
László Darvasi
We should not for a moment turn our back on the blazing sun, the present.
Miklós Mészöly