Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I remember when I was writing 'The Tin Drum,' I had the totally misguided idea of giving Oskar Matzerath a sister, and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good.… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass Copy Share
“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. — Gunter Grass Copy Share
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It… — Günter Grass Copy Share
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power.… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
“Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence.” — Günter Grass Copy Share
