“You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.” IfsThinkingStillsHappensLiteratureNovelFateWalkingThings HappenPlotIndispensableDublin Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.” IfsThinkingWritingMeanCharacterFactsHappensFatePlanningLiterary Characters Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating.” ThinkingWayNeedsWritingTryingBigsHappensWould BeWorstGoes OnBest WayRepeatsFormulasWorst ThingsSuffocating Author:Daniel Kehlmann
