Andrea Hirata famous quotes

I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.
-- Andrea Hirata

#Sibling #Married #My Siblings

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
-- Andrea Hirata

#Writing #Fighting #Expectations

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
-- Andrea Hirata

#World #Mathematics #Bohemian

From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.
-- Andrea Hirata

#Children #Distance #Writing

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
-- Andrea Hirata

#Stars #Coffee #Airplane

My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless.
-- Andrea Hirata

#Voice #People #Stories

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.
-- Andrea Hirata

#Sports #Children #News

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,
-- Andrea Hirata

#Voice #Six #Novel

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.