The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
Antonio TabucchiA l'intรฉrieur de ce corps vivait l'รขme d'une intellectuelle et poรจte dont personne n'avait le soupรงon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.
Antonio TabucchiLiterature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Antonio TabucchiAn intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Antonio TabucchiLike a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.
Antonio Tabucchi