Siegfried Lenz Quotes

#1. One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Siegfried Lenz

#2. If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

Brian K. Vaughan

#3. I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But today, there is degree of caution around capitalism. We believe in compassionate capitalism. Growth for growth's sake can never be an end in itself.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#4. Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

Siegfried Lenz

#5. I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

Siegfried Lenz

#6. Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?

Kelley Armstrong

#7. I love being outside with my boys, playing tag or trying to keep up with them.

Jennie Finch

#8. I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

Siegfried Lenz

#9. Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.

Nicholas Kristof

#10. The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.

William McDonough

#11. Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

Siegfried Lenz

#12. Mars was this water-based planet, and we know there was stable water on the surface for a long time, which is critical for life having a chance to develop.

Ellen Stofan

#13. Your soul is Me, and it knows it. What it is doing, is trying to experience that. And what it is remembering is that the best way to have this experience is by not doing anything. There is nothing to do but to be.

Neale Donald Walsch