Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face – for me that would be deserving of an award. Elfriede Jelinek Read Quote
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. Elfriede Jelinek Read Quote
As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world. Elfriede Jelinek Read Quote
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people. Elfriede Jelinek Read Quote
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. Elfriede Jelinek Read Quote
I do not want to have the feeling of writing ‘for eternity’, so to speak. Elfriede Jelinek Read Quote
My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey. Elfriede Jelinek Read Quote