Gunter Grass Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.

  Gunter Grass

  Lying, Believe, Writing

• The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

  Gunter Grass

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

• I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.

  Gunter Grass

  Writing, Years, One Day

  "It Was Always on My Mind". Interview with Ulrich Wickert, www.spiegel.de. August 21, 2006.

• I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.

  Gunter Grass

  Morning, Reading, Believe

  "Gunter Grass speaks to Paris Review about art of fiction". Paris Review Interview, www.newsbangladesh.com. April 14, 2015.

• Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

  Gunter Grass

  Writing, Drawing, Age

  "Gunter Grass speaks to Paris Review about art of fiction". Paris Review Interview, www.newsbangladesh.com. April 14, 2015.

• Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

  Gunter Grass

  Writing, Sometimes, Drawers

  "Look back in anger" by James Meek, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2007.

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