Autor / Author Besitzen / Own Danach / Afterwards Generation Je / Ever Jugend / Youth Kritik / Critics Nächster / Next Schreiben / Write Seine / His Sollen / Ought
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
