I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.
From W. G. Sebald
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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