Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grasswas a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1927
CountryGermany
writing thinking mind
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
memories clothes heaven
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed.
lying believe writing
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.
real literature naked
I expected more from literature than from real, naked life.
butterfly watches dangerous
It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.
country israel want
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
eye sight blue
Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
mother children liars
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
nice color play
And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice....
book media church
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?
future growth statistics
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
book sacred
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
things-change translators translations
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
environment deny destroyed
Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?