Günter Grass, in an interview with The Paris Review
Posts tagged “literature”
“ [W]e speak too much about human beings. This world is crowded with humans, but also with animals, birds, fish, and insects. ”
“ Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires. ”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth I.iv
Confessions of a Book Addict, Vol. 2
I judge books by their covers; if I like it, no number of currently owned copies will deter me from adding it to my collection.
“ Her lovers were her desert campaign against Rommel, her D Day, and her Berlin. ”
Ian McEwan, “The Use of Poetry” [link]
“ And that is why I have sworn not to put pen to paper until my ideas either clarify or depart entirely; I have quite enough sins on my soul without putting dangerous, shallow epigrams into people’s heads…Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. New York: Vintage Books, 2000: 378.
