Er / He Ernst / Seriously Ihm / Him Nehmen / Take Obwohl / Though Philosoph / Philosopher Romanschriftsteller / Novelist Schlecht / Bad Schriftsteller / Writer Schwer / Hard Wunderbar / Wonderful
The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.
I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.
