Added to playlist37:34New “You can’t be closed in literature – it opens you."Ariana ReinesThe Impulse of Poetry
Added to playlist22:01New “If you were completely in agreement with the world as it is, you wouldn’t write novels.”Mario Vargas LlosaLiterature Makes Citizens Critical
Added to playlist18:18 “You spend your entire career trying to find out why you’re writing."Johan HarstadFiction is Closer to the Truth
Added to playlist18:11 “I believe literature should always be started from zero.”Yoko TawadaWriting Without Borders
Added to playlist39:38 “There is no version of yourself that isn’t constantly influenced by everybody else in your life.”Sally RooneyOn ‘Conversations with Friends’
Added to playlist24:27 “Democracy is not a state, it’s a process, and we have to constantly defend it.”Nora KrugWho I Am as a German
Added to playlist07:15 “I have an obligation to my characters, I have an obligation to my sentences.”Péter NádasThe Role of the Writer
Added to playlist05:25 “The power of poetry can save us, can heal us.”Hiromi ItōPoetry as a Performance
Added to playlist14:59 “Literature keeps producing and developing empathy.”Georgi GospodinovLiterature Develops Empathy
