"I don't believe in writing at night because……" — Gunter Grass
"I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music."
—
Gunter Grass
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
60 Quotes by Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass has 60 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to…
-
Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?
-
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that…
-
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this…
-
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
-
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all…
-
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a…
-
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
-
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed…
-
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did…
-
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things…
-
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
See all 60 quotes by Gunter Grass »
More Begin Quotes
This quote is filed under Begin Quotes,
one of 4,334 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
— Saint Augustine
-
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
-
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
-
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
— Abigail Adams
-
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
See all 4,334 Begin Quotes »