Walter Moers Quotes

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.

WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.

...I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...

Where shadows dim with shadows mate,
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark ...

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

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 by a drunk.

You can't beat a good education!

He was the best bad idea I ever had.

If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.

It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.

Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.

People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

An author owes a duty to the truth.

There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.

That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.

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

He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.

Life is too precious to be left to chance

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

For some miracles can only occur in the dark.

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

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.

If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.

Knowledge is night!

I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.

I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.

However great the challenge, it's easier to overcome with a decent meal inside of you.

But when there's light, there's darkness as well.

never trust a Troglotroll

Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.

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

I was in a bibliophile's Eylsium.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

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

...but I was urged on by a courage born of despair.

Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.

Having jettisoned all my ballast, I concentrated on escaping.

When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.