Quotes by Walter Moers

“That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.”

“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.”

“Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfngt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhrt. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.”

“In my profession it isnt a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money its always ...”

“Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words....”

“I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.”

“Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that ...”

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”

“On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. ”

“Rumo!" said Rumo. "That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke." "You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly. "No, no." Smyke chuckled.”

“Approaching the forest from the west was no army, but a delegation of Grailsundanian master surgeons on their way to an appendix conference . . . But that isn't the craziest part of the story - oh,...”

“There were adventure stories supplied with cloths for mopping your brow, thrillers containing pressed leaves of soothing valerian to be sniffed when the suspense became too great, and books with st...”

“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”

“If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”

“Life is too precious to be left to chance”

“I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the...”

“Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.”

“In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s alwa...”

“On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.”

“Life is too precious to be left to chance”