“It didn’t happen the way one can tell it; but if once can tell it as it was, then one wasn’t in on it, or it all happened so long ago that candor comes too easily. In order to make the story tellable, one has to separate and put into sequence events which in reality were so entangled as to be inexplicable...”

“It didn’t happen the way one can tell it; but if once can tell it as it was, then one wasn’t in on it, or it all happened so long ago that candor comes too easily. In order to make the story tellable, one has to separate and put into sequence events which in reality were so entangled as to be inexplicable...”

— Christa Wolf