That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than…

— Walter Moers

“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.”

— Walter Moers

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum…

— Walter Moers

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.”

— Walter Moers

Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to…

— Walter Moers

People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

— Walter Moers

“If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.”

— Walter Moers

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around…

— Walter Moers

never trust a Troglotroll

— Walter Moers

“Da ist auch noch ein anderer Geruch in der Luft, der Geruch von Feuern, die in der Ferne brennen, mit einem Hauch Zimt darin…

— Walter Moers

“If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”

— Walter Moers

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The…

— Walter Moers

“But when there’s light, there’s darkness as well.”

— Walter Moers

For some miracles can only occur in the dark.

— Walter Moers