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Quotes About Feuchtwanger

Some twenty straw piles from mine slept the writer Walter Hasenclever, one of the founders of German expressionism.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
During his first stay in the infirmary he had immediately smelled out the fact that not less than eight of the thirty inmates were Nazis.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
What is the use of being a writer of some note if one cannot treat oneself to such a luxury?
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Feuchtwanger's more dubious actions — e.g., he threw away cables that contained information pertaining to the prisoners but addressed to him personally, without informing the other prisoners of the cables' contents. When they learned of his callousness, the inmates were out for blood, but Schoenberner protected Feuchtwanger with the condescending defense that "by his own dim lights" he was "quite innocent.
~ Anthony Heilbut