“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
“Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.” KnowsTryingSometimesStoriesTogetherRememberCertainMemoriesKnow HowBe YouFragmentsShiftingFalsification Author:Gunter Grass
“Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.” KnowsWritingSometimesCapableDecadesDrawers 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
