Gunter Grass Quotes & Sayings

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29 most famous Gunter Grass quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

Gunter Grass Quotes
“I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.”
Gunter Grass Quotes
“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.”
Gunter Grass Quotes
“Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.”
Gunter Grass Quotes
“Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.”
Gunter Grass Quotes
“Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.”
Gunter Grass Quotes
“We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.”
Gunter Grass Quotes
“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
Gunter Grass Quotes
“If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.”
“Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.”
“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.”

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