103 Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek

Internet is exemplary for me. I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak. The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me.

How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines.

My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.

As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.