What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

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• Herta Muller:

  The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt

• Herta Muller:

  Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

• Herta Muller:

  Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

• Herta Muller:

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

• Herta Muller:

  I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to unders

• Herta Muller:

  In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things

• Herta Muller:

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

• Herta Muller:

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

• Herta Muller:

  I never wanted to be a writer.

• Herta Muller:

  If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be a