“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.” PeopleWritingBelieveLongStillsLyingHumanityClearTalesStorytellerIlliterate Author:Gunter Grass
“What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.” LongDoeHelpingMemoriesPiecesRiversRoseForgottenGlassesWoodsBonesSunsetChairsStomachFloatingPencilsPact Author:Gunter Grass
“I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.” NeedsWritingBelieveLongNightReadingMorningTenDon't BelieveNineClockBreakfastDaylight Author:Gunter Grass
“Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.” MenLongLeftKnownUltimateLaysRefusePursuitQuestsGarbageUltimate TruthAlone Life Author:Gunter Grass
