Top 40 Walter Moers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.”

— Walter Moers

2. “Life is too precious to be left to chance.”

— Walter Moers

3. “Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”

— Walter Moers

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4. “People always covet what they themselves do not possess.”

— Walter Moers

5. “Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”

— Walter Moers

6. “Im as good as dead, but they haven’t buried me yet.”

— Walter Moers

7. “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

8. “No one who writes a good book is really dead.”

— Walter Moers

9. “Verlass dich nie auf die Ehrhaftigkeit eines anderen!”

— Walter Moers

10. “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

11. “A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”

— Walter Moers

12. “I’ve never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can’t arrange a library in alphabetical order until you’ve collected one.”

— Walter Moers

13. “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

14. “Hexen stehen immer zwischen Birken.”

— Walter Moers

15. “Wenn es sein muss, trete ich auch Zwerge!”

— Walter Moers

16. “I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.”

— Walter Moers

17. “For some miracles can only occur in the dark.”

— Walter Moers

18. “It’s quite simple, just follow the dotted line,” the Planmaker explained. “Don’t let any bad idea lead you astray. Don’t let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That’s my humble opinion, anyway.”

— Walter Moers

19. “If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”

— Walter Moers

20. “Lieber hinsetzen und entspannen als hinspannen und entsetzen.”

— Walter Moers

21. “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

22. “That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.”

— Walter Moers

23. “You can’t beat a good education!”

— Walter Moers

24. “Lesen ist eine intelligente Methode, sich selber das Denken zu ersparen.”

— Walter Moers

25. “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

26. “He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.”

— Walter Moers

27. “Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.”

— Walter Moers

28. “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

29. “There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.”

— Walter Moers

30. “Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.”

— Walter Moers

31. “Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes – they’d sooner eat the same things all the time – but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”

— Walter Moers

32. “I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.”

— Walter Moers

33. “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

34. “That’s the reward for your good deed,′ I explained, ’a clear conscience. It really perks you up.”

— Walter Moers

35. “When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.”

— Walter Moers

36. “I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children’s laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming – the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.”

— Walter Moers

37. “He wasn’t such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.”

— Walter Moers

38. “The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.”

— Walter Moers

39. “I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.”

— Walter Moers

40. “I was in a bibliophile’s Eylsium.”

— Walter Moers

41. “There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.”

— Walter Moers

42. “However great the challenge, it’s easier to overcome with a decent meal inside of you.”

— Walter Moers

43. “If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.”

— Walter Moers

44. “Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.”

— Walter Moers

45. “It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.”

— Walter Moers

46. “He was the best bad idea I ever had.”

— Walter Moers

47. “Wine is drinkable sunlight. It’s the most glorious summer’s day imaginable, captured in a bottle.”

— Walter Moers