“I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them p...” — George Konrad Quote

“I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.”

“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”

“I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.”

“Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.”

“Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.”