List of Alberto Moravia Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 26 inspiring quotes by Alberto Moravia.

About Alberto Moravia

  • Born: November 28, 1907
  • Died: September 26, 1990
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.
    Book Heart Vanity
    Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.
    Mean Men World
    Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. i should never be able to write a real autobiography; i always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—i’m a liar, in fact. that means i’m a novelist, after all. i write about what i know.
    Real Liars Writing
    A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
    Belief Spite
    Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. they keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
    Perfect Trying Problem
    Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. for me, this theme as always been revolt.
    Song Bird Theme
    War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
    Clever War Soldier
    I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
    Writing Thinking Personality
    You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.
    Thinking Purpose
    I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
    Writing Layers Century
    This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
    Men Alive Belief
    Loyalty, signor molteni, not love. penelope is loyal to ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. in certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. loyalty, not love.
    Loyalty Self People
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