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.


The City of Dreaming Books (ed. The Overlook Press, 2008) - ISBN: 9781590203682

Walter Moers Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...