Quote

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

Walter Moers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Walter Moers
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
Author
Screenwriter
Writer
München-Gladbach
Sea
Paper
Gets
Written
High
Redundant
Word
Seas
Wet
Easily

More quotes by Walter Moers

Image
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.
Walter Moers
Image
Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.
Walter Moers
Image
Life is too precious to be left to chance
Walter Moers
Image
From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.
Walter Moers
Image
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.
Walter Moers
Image
Stealing from one author is plagiarism from many authors, research.
Walter Moers
Image
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.
Walter Moers
Image
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.
Walter Moers
Image
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors they're called artists.
Walter Moers
Image
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.
Walter Moers
Image
never trust a Troglotroll
Walter Moers
Image
No one who writes a good book is really dead.
Walter Moers
Image
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.
Walter Moers
Image
If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.
Walter Moers
Image
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.
Walter Moers
Image
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.
Walter Moers
Image
People always covet what they themselves do not possess.
Walter Moers
Image
This is wine, Ghoolion said solemnly. Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.
Walter Moers
Image
Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.
Walter Moers
Image
Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.
Walter Moers