Herta Muller
Herta Muller
Herta Mülleris a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania, her native language is German. Since the early 1990s she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 August 1953
CountryGermany
writing looks doe
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
steps action single-step
Who can take a single step with his head?
writing hands silent
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
eye towns stones
I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.
wells invitations
In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.
suffering doe humans
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
fool unbearable speak
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
sight people everyday
Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.
hurt pain hands
My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.
keeps sees
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.
allowed arouse assert attempt freer mouth ourselves time
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.