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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.
- Herta Muller
#Angle
#Oneself
#Process
#Things
#Writing
If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
- Herta Muller
#Death
#Friends
#Live
#Need
#Threats
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
- Herta Muller
#Beings
#Does
#Human
#Improve
#Suffering
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
- Herta Muller
#Act
#Head
#Labor
#Said
#Writing
As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.
- Herta Muller
#Child
#Mother
#Old Woman
#Old
#Woman
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
- Herta Muller
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#Like
#Literature
#Road
#Skin
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.
- Herta Muller
#Always
#Myself
#Things
#Understand
#Way
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.
- Herta Muller
#Difficult
#Mouth
#Suspicion
#Time
#Words
If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences 'sparkle' can I get hooked.
- Herta Muller
#First
#Inside
#Metaphors
#Sparkle
#Story
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.
- Herta Muller
#Believe
#I Believe That
#Literature
For me, each journey to Romania is also a journey into another time, in which I never knew which events in my life were coincidence and which were staged. This is why I have, in every public statement I have made, demanded access to the secret files kept on me which, under various pretexts, have invariably been denied me.
- Herta Muller
#Journey
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Time
Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.
- Herta Muller
#Happiness
#Luck
#May
#Perhaps
#Shared
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
- Herta Muller
#Literature
#Memory
#Second-Hand
Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.
- Herta Muller
#Beautiful
#Language
#Sensual
#Very
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class. And I took them all very literally, that God sees everything, and so I felt I was always being watched. Or that dead people were in Heaven right over our village.
- Herta Muller
#Dead
#God
#Home
#Religion
#Village
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