103 Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek

Trust is fine, but control is better.

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

The system that judges the worth of women, the system that judges a woman's worth through her youthful body and looks and not for what she does.

That started very early on, and then I guess I tried to close up this fissure with something that was accessible to me, and all I had was writing.

It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her.

After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy,