Elfriede Jelinek is a famous Playwright from USA, he/she is 77 years old and still alive, born October 20, 1946.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection.
Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Elfriede.
14 Famous quotes by Elfriede Jelinek
"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity"
"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"
"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak"
"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist"
"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead"
"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"
"The problem is that it is difficult to translate"
"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable"
"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"
"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"
"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease"
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people"
