Am Erfahren / Experienced Erfahrung / Experience Existenziell / Existential Fokussiert / Focused Geschrieben / Written Immigrant Themes Über / About Vor / Before Weil / Because
I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.
I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.
I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.
