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Category: Walter Moers

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

literature, writers, writing

Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

circus, city-of-dreaming-books, dreaming-books, fantasy, labryinth-of-dreaming-books, uncertain, uncertainty, walter-moers

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

fantasy, fantasy-young-adult, fiction

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

literature, reading

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

circus, city-of-dreaming-books, dreaming-books, fantasy, labryinth-of-dreaming-books, uncertain, uncertainty, walter-moers

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

fantasy, fantasy-young-adult, fiction

I’ve never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can’t arrange a library in alphabetical order until you’ve collected one.

bluebear, city-of-dreaming-books, knowledge, learning, library, study

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

literature, writers, writing

Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.