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Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

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If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

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In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.

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Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

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In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

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I never wanted to be a writer.

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I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying books twice because I couldn't find what I already have in all my mess.

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My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

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We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class. And I took them all very literally, that God sees everything, and so I felt I was always being watched. Or that dead people were in Heaven right over our village.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1953

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