Bernhard Schlink Professions : Writer Born : July 6, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 46 quotes by Bernhard Schlink I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself. Bernhard Schlink teenager clever children But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body Bernhard Schlink seductive awkward world The more I suffer, the more I love. Bernhard Schlink reader suffering As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. Bernhard Schlink will you hope book What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided. Bernhard Schlink problems law philosophy history I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write. Bernhard Schlink i-am nothing happy love Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors