No > No's Quotes

“Copak chystáš se na ples k ježibabám, Femoriane?" neodpustil si Atalan. "V tom případě máš padnoucí kostým. Všechny přítomné budou zaručeně větší krasavice než ty."
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"Atalane," podíval se na něj Femorian přes vstvu špíny, "víš jaký je rozdíl mezi tebou a mnou v otázce ježibab?" Jukatin ochránce se nechápavě zamračil.
"Já se můžu umýt.”
― Tereza Matoušková, Hladová přání

“Proč já?" zaúpěl. "To sis nemohl vybrat někoho jiného?"
"Nebránil ses."
"Jak jsem se mohl bránit?" křičel mladý velekněz. "Když jsi s tím začal, ještě jsem trčel v lůně. Co jsem mohl dělat? Šlapat plodovou vodu a křičet Nepouštějte ho ke mně!?”
― Tereza Matoušková, Hladová přání

“Stelle Dich an den Abrgund der Hölle
Und tanze zur Musik der Sterne!”
― Walter Moers, Ensel und Krete: Ein Märchen aus Zamonien

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“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, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“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

“No one who writes a good book is really dead.”
― Walter Moers

“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, The City of Dreaming Books

“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, The City of Dreaming Books

“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer’s block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I have since used it whenever I myself have been gripped by fear of the blank sheet in front of me. It is infallible, and its effect is always the same: the knot unravels and a stream of words gushes out on to the virgin paper. It acts like a magic spell and I sometimes fancy it really is one. But, even if it isn’t the work of a sorcerer, it is certainly the most brilliant sentence any writer has ever devised. It runs: ‘This is where my story begins.’”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“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, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“never trust a Troglotroll”
― Walter Moers

“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.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“Where shadows dim with shadows mate,
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark...”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“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, The City of Dreaming Books

“Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.”
― Walter Moers

“Knowledge is night!”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“People always covet what they themselves do not possess.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.”
― Walter Moers

“An author owes a duty to the truth.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?”
― Walter Moers

“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.”
― Walter Moers

“In tiefen, kalten, hohlen Räumen,
Wo Schatten sich mit Schatten paaren,
Wo alte Bücher Träume träumen,
Von Zeiten, als sie Bäume waren,
Wo Kohle Diamant gebiert,
Man weder Licht noch Gnade kennt,
Dort ist's, wo jener Geist regiert,
Den man den Schattenkönig nennt.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”
― Walter Moers, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

“The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“But when there’s light, there’s darkness as well.”
― Walter Moers

“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.”
― Walter Moers, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

“Rumo!" said Rumo.
"That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke."
"You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly.
"No, no." Smyke chuckled.”
― Walter Moers, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures