We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, f…

- Anna Funder

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

- Anna Funder

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have t…

- Anna Funder

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

- Anna Funder

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and th…

- Anna Funder

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

- Anna Funder

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

- Anna Funder

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

- Anna Funder

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

- Anna Funder