Walter Moers

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

— 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…

— Walter Moers

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

— 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…

— Walter Moers

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

“I was in a bibliophile's Eylsium.”

— Walter Moers

The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is…

— Walter Moers

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a…

— Walter Moers

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

“I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.”

— Walter Moers

Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.

— Walter Moers

“Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my…

— Walter Moers

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

— Walter Moers

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers