Walter Moers Quotes

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• People always covet what they themselves do not possess.
• The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
• From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.
• For some miracles can only occur in the dark.
• Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.
• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the…
• Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that…
• Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.
• never trust a Troglotroll
• Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.
• Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order…
• Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench…
• Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.
• 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 best…
• Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write,…
• A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his…
• 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 played…
• No one who writes a good book is really dead.
• 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 authors;…
• I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has…

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