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

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

"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 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."

"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."

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

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