Books Quote by Daniel Kehlmann

When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we…

— Daniel Kehlmann

“Sweat was running down my face. The next turn wasn’t too bad, and I noticed an old barn on the roadside, the roof caved-in,…

— Daniel Kehlmann

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

— Daniel Kehlmann

It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held…

— Daniel Kehlmann

When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away…

— Daniel Kehlmann

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue,…

— Daniel Kehlmann

One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert.…

— Daniel Kehlmann

“But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He’s a bear.”

— Daniel Kehlmann

Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going…

— Daniel Kehlmann

For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option.…

— Daniel Kehlmann

German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say…

— Daniel Kehlmann

English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if…

— Daniel Kehlmann