W. G. Sebald Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.”

“Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.”

“I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.”

“I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.”

“Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.”

“You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.”