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Walter Moers


“The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.”
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“Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!”
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“Life is too precious to be left to chance”
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“Es ist wie bei einem gedruckten Satz: Er besteht aus lauter verschieden aussehenden Buchstaben, die scheinbar willkürlich durcheinanderstehen. Aber trotzdem kann man ihn lesen! Und er ergibt einen Sinn. Man kann sogar drüber lachen, wenn er komisch ist. So funktioniert Buchhaim. Das ist Biblionismus.”
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“Etwas Einmaliges, etwas Unvergängliches formte sich in meinem Kopf. Ein kunstvolles Gebilde aus Worten und Sätzen, das sich wie eine außerirdische Kreatur von fremdartiger Schönheit in meinem Denken materialisierte - und zu mir sprach, in makellosen Versen! Es was ein Gedicht. Es hatte nicht das Geringste mit meinem eigenen Denken zu tun, es waren Gedanken aus dem All! Ein Geschenk der Sterne!”
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“Ich erblickte das Alphabet der Sterne. Ein Firmament voller funkelnder Zeichen, eine unlesbare, aber wundervolle Schrift aus Licht, so alt wie das Universum.”
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“..als würde man die Tür zu einem alten Antiquariat aufreißen, als würde sich ein Sturm aus purem Bücherstaub erheben und einem der Moder von Millionen verrottender Folianten mitten ins Gesicht wehen.”
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“Beurteile niemals ein Buch nach dem Umschlag!”
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“Wenn es sein muss, trete ich auch Zwerge!”
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“Reisenden mit krankhafter Bücherstehlsucht (Biblioklepsie) ist der Zutritt nach Buchhaim untersagt und die sofortige Umkehr angeraten. Bei Zuwiderhandlung und Buchdiebstahl wird nicht nur der Diebstahl, sondern auch die Zuwiderhandlung dieses Verbotes drakonisch bestraft. Kehre um, Biblioklept, solange Du noch kannst.”
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“Der Bibliomane", fuhr er fort, "verkörpert in Buchhaim eine der am liebsten gesehenen Kategorien des Biblionismus. Er ist von dem Wunsch beseelt, möglichst viele Bücher zu erwerben und mit nach Hause zu nehmen. Ein durchschnittlicher Büchersammler also. Sofern er dies im Rahmen der gesetzlichen Vorschriften tut und die Bücher nicht klaut, ist der Bibliomane der willkommenste Gast der Stadt - wir alle leben von ihm. Die Gruppe der Bibliomanen ist eine sehr große.”
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“Nog één ding, jongen, wat je in je oren moet knopen: het gaat niet om hoe een verhaal begint. Ook niet om hoe het eindigt. Maar om wat daartussenin gebeurt.”
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“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”
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“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 stout locks sealed by the Atlantean censorship authorities ("Sale permitted, reading prohibited!"). One shop sold nothing but 'half' works that broke off in the middle because their author had died while writing them; another specialised in novels whose protagonists were insects. I also saw a Wolperting shop that sold nothing but books on chess and another patronised exclusively by dwarfs with blond beards, all of whom wore eye-shades.”
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“People always covet what they themselves do not possess.”
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“Stelle Dich an den Abrgund der Hölle Und tanze zur Musik der Sterne!”
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“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”
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“Lesen ist eine intelligente Methode, sich selber das Denken zu ersparen.”
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“If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.”
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“Rumo!" said Rumo. "That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke." "You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly. "No, no." Smyke chuckled.”
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“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, no, my boy, for approaching from the east was a party of itinerant watchmakers bound for the pocket-watch fair at Wimbleton . . . But not even that is the craziest part of the story! For apporaching from the south were over a hundred armourers and locksmiths on their way to Florinth, where some power-hungry prince had commissioned them to build a monstrous war machine . . . Well, that would be enough crazy coincedences for an averagely crazy story but the battle of Nurn Forest involved the most improbable coincedences in the history of Zamonia. For entering the forest, this time from the north came a delegation of alchemists.”
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“Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.”
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“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”
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“Αν ίσως μάζευε κανείς δέκα χιλιάδες θαλάσσιους ελέφαντες μέσα σε μια κοιλάδα του βυθού και τους έβαζε να μουγκρίσουν όλοι μαζί από έρωτα, κι αν έβαζε παρέα και ένα εκατομμύριο μπάμπουρες να ζουζουνίζουν βόσκοντας μέλι και γύρη, θα μπορούσε να πλησιάσει κάπως το επίμονο μουγκρητό της ικανοποίησης που έβγαινε από τα χείλια του Βασιλικού Φαλαινόσαυρου.”
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“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”
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“That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.”
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“never trust a Troglotroll”
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“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 always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.”
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“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
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“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. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty.”
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“Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.”
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“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.”
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“Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.”
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