Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. Elfriede Jelinek More Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek More Quotes From Elfriede Jelinek After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it. Elfriede Jelinek solitude walks ifs I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. Elfriede Jelinek growing political thinking I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead Elfriede Jelinek writing may attention 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 worry feelings writing Vice is basically the love of failure. Elfriede Jelinek vices He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books. Elfriede Jelinek book lying Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation! Elfriede Jelinek women mistake children I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. Elfriede Jelinek want feelings writing 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. Elfriede Jelinek value woman authority work 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 words me training music 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 parents child me world I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people. Elfriede Jelinek i-am being suffering people The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. Elfriede Jelinek again right government made The problem is that it is difficult to translate. Elfriede Jelinek translate difficult problem I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there. Elfriede Jelinek person i-am feel made I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one. Elfriede Jelinek because who women ego I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input. Elfriede Jelinek everyone find internet people It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet. Elfriede Jelinek text method democratic internet As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much. Elfriede Jelinek miss much books long