"But 'knowing is not enough'. And, of course, not knowing doesn't help much either.
This dilemma fascinates me; my own capacity for ignoring the truth while simultaneously revering it above so much else."
Hal Hartley
in "Projections. A Forum for Film Makers"
Faber and Faber Limited, London 1992

" 'Sie haben einen Plan?', sagte Sumner. 'Und Sie glauben, das hilft Ihnen?' "
Ian McGuire
aus dem Roman "Nordwasser"
mareverlag, Hamburg 2018

"Für das Herz ist das Leben einfach: Es schlägt, solange es kann."
Karl Ove Knausgard
"Sterben" Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2011

" 'Das Leben ist kein Konjunktiv, Herta.'
  'Meins schon.' "
aus der Serie "Braunschlag", ORF 2011
von David Schalko

"Schreiben ist - eintreten, ohne zu klopfen."
Marina Zwetajewa
"Im Feuer geschrieben. Ein Leben in Briefen" Suhrkamp Verlag 1996

"I get so very tired of having to talk about literature. I didn't begin writing because I wanted to sit in a room and talk about the construction of subjectivity in Wordsworth and Ashbery; I began writing because I had made friends with the dead: they had written to me, in their books, about life on earth and I wanted to write back and say yes, house, bridge, river, hair, no, maybe, never, forever."
Mary Ruefle
in "3511 Zwetajewa" v. Levin Westermann
Matthes & Seitz Verlag Berlin, 2017