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Quotes About Elfriede

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Dr. Barazon had maintained that Elfriede would not have needed to provide an Aryan cover for the real author of Ali and Nino, because the book contract was signed in April 1937, almost a full year before the Nazi Anschluss of Austria.
~ Tom Reiss
Internet is exemplary for me. I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak. The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me.
~ Elfriede Jelinek