“People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingYearsChildrenPersonsSometimesSeemsCertainHappenedChildhoodStrangeStrangerAliensAlienationDecipher Author:Gunter Grass
“What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?” NeedsFeelsBookStatesChurchMediaDangerousMassChurch And StateMass Media Author:Gunter Grass
“In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.” NeedsFeelsLanguageGrowthChanceOughtAgreePermitThreateningJacobNew WordsGrimm Author:Gunter Grass
“What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.” IfsFeelsShouldSometimesFacesGrowsGrewMetsDecidedSkinsCampaignsGermanyThickShould IWoundedThick Skin Author:Gunter Grass
