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
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
I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world,… — 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
What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern,… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
