Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Government, Right)

"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."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Music, Example, Language, Meaning, Play, Sound, Training, Will, Words)

"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Language, Prose)

"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."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Society, Time, Draft, Expression, Literature)

"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Freedom, Irony)

"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."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Feeling, Future, Influence, Will, Writing)

"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Eternity, Feeling, Want, Writing)

"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Men, Fight)

"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Attention, May, Public)

"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Society, Solidarity)

"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."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Parents)

"The problem is that it is difficult to translate."
- Elfriede Jelinek

"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Isolation, Problems, Solidarity)