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Herta Muller Quotes

German - Novelist | August 17, 1953 -

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

Memory Literature Anything Including

I am a broken person.

Broken I Am Person Am

My mother tongue is German.

Mother Tongue Mother Tongue German

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Writing Labor Said Silent Hand Head

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.

Time Words Mouth Become Difficult

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Suffering Human Improve Human Beings

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Live Death Friends You Risk Need

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Myself Understand Way Always Things

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.

Writing Process Experiences Things

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

Writing Doing Looks Know Finished

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

I Am Society Receive Often Am

I never wanted to be a writer.

Never Writer Wanted

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