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Herta Muller
German Novelist
Born: Aug 17, 1953
Any Because Language Me Writing You
Related authors: Alfred Doblin Curt Siodmak Heinrich Mann Hermann Hesse Lion Feuchtwanger Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Sonia Levitin
One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to. Herta Muller
Adapting Destroyed Refusing Either
Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return other than that we think and feel. Herta Muller
Property Book Nothing Think Other Everyone Our Inside Stays Individually Feel Heads Return Than Personal Expects Literature Which Us Speaks
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
Time Words Become Before Mouth Difficult Our Ourselves Objects More Through Take Attempt Allowed Freer Arouse Gestures Suspicion Banned Then Even Assert Interpret
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
Myself Way Clarify Only Written Understand Always Happening Actually Things Inner
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
Writing Oneself Angle Entirely Sees Another Experiences Process Searches Keeps Things
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished. Herta Muller
Writing Finished Only Like Know Looks Does Doing Itself While
I never wanted to be a writer. Herta Muller
Writer Never Wanted
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. Herta Muller
Difficult Consequences Books Kind Wound Find Since Mess Because Up Very Any Often Organizing Twice Buying
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. Herta Muller
Me Book Judge World Treat Worth Police Protection Rest First Important Gave Others Secret Though Berlin Could Longer Felt Leave Were Off Won Friends Very Did Literary Cut Publication Awards
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery. Herta Muller
Whatever Skin Road Almost Like Read Devoured Became Discovery Literature Which
I write in order to bear witness to life. Herta Muller
Life Witness Bear Write Order
I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much. Herta Muller
Language Late Town Like Learn Learned Very Wanted Fifteen Much
Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier. Herta Muller
Writing Language Something Through Because Five Different Experiences Senses
If I don't belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can't bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn't work. Once you no longer belong, it's over. Herta Muller
Work You Backwards Think Bend Else Once Pretend About Case Someone Longer Over Because Opinions Any Just Then Belong
It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress in the village. She knew that if I moved to the city, I would become corrupted. And I was. I started to read books. Herta Muller
Me School Mother Will Become Books High Would City Corrupted High School Only Knew Attended She Read Moved Wanted Against Preparatory Village Started
Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly. Herta Muller
Happiness Luck Shared Perhaps Sadly May
Working with language requires beauty for me. Herta Muller
Me Language Beauty Working Requires
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
Life Time Journey Me Events Made My Life Every Secret Statement Invariably Various Never Knew Demanded Also Another Another Time Access Were Been Denied Romania Staged Which Public Files Each Why Kept Coincidence
My mother tongue is German. Herta Muller
Mother Mother Tongue German Tongue
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done. Herta Muller
Believe Has-Been Always Been Person Goes Precisely Done Where Literature Damage

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