Quotes by Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a wr >>

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. >>

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is >>

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it. >>

Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and w >>

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus