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" My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey. "

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" It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy. "

Elfriede Jelinek

Art

Interesting

Democracy

" I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence. "

" I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there. "

" I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input. "

" 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. "

" As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much. "

" When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side. "

" I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak. "

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

Elfriede Jelinek

Society

Construction

" 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 don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it. "

Elfriede Jelinek

Willingly

" 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. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world. "

Elfriede Jelinek

Said

World

" It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display. "

Elfriede Jelinek

Put

Public

" I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal. "

" 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. "

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

" The problem is that it is difficult to translate. "

" I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one. "

" My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female. "

" I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change. "

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

Elfriede Jelinek

Working

Made

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

" How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines. "

" As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad. "

" I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist. "

" It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet. "

" I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise. "

" A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression. "

" I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men. "