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"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."
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"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."

"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

"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."

"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."

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