Phrase by 'Herta Muller'

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

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Know , Doing , Writing , Looks


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

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  I Am , Society , Often , Receive


I never wanted to be a writer.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Never , Wanted , Writer


I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying books twice because I couldn't find what I already have in all my mess.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Difficult , Find , Mess , Consequences


My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Me , Friends , World , Police


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.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Home , Children , God , Religion


Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Like , Literature , Skin , Road


I write in order to bear witness to life.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Life , Write , Order , Bear


I speak a kind of Hapsburg language.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Language , Kind , Speak


I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

Author: Herta Muller - German Novelist
  Like , Language , Late , Learn


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