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One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

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Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

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Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

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I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

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I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Writer

Born: March 17th, 1926

Died: October 7th, 2014

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