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You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

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My mother tongue is German.

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The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.

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If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences 'sparkle' can I get hooked.

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I write in order to bear witness to life.

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I am a broken person.

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As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.

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One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

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What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

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Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1953

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