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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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"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."

"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."
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"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

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

"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

"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."

"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."

"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
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