Tibor Fischer Quotes

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

I never could get a proper job.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.

Laziness always wins.