Bernhard Schlink Quotes
Top 33 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.
I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
Berg, Sophia may be a Greek name, but that is no reason for you to study your neighbor in a Greek lesson. Translate!
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
When did you know you were going to be a writer?
I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties, then I remembered it again.
I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties, then I remembered it again.
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.
I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.
We all condemned our parents to shame, even if the only charge we could bring was that after 1945 they had tolerated the perpetrators in their midst.
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both
Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?