American - Playwright | October 20, 1946 -
I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.
Elfriede Jelinek
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It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.
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I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.
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I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
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When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.
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I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
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I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal.
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In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers.
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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
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I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.
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My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.
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How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines.
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