The advantage of being a writer

Just to give you some idea of my working routine, it’s quite not revolutionary, but normal. I work like maybe a bureaucrat and I get up and start to write at eight o’clock and I do my morning routine. I drink a lot of coffee and write and read until my midday break and then I work again.

So it’s quite a normal more or less nine to five job, although I sometimes work after five am. So that’s not that exciting, as I said, but I think that the exciting thing about my job is that I can read whatever I want, that I can get deeper and deeper into topics, and that I have the freedom to extend my research as much as I want.

And that is really something that I think is right and wonderful and also a privilege I have to say; it’s something that, of course, I had to achieve when I wrote my first novel, I didn’t have enough money to do a lot of research and to take my time. I had to be finished by some day. So that’s some privileges that came that got bigger by every book I published․

My recommendations to young writers

Be self-confident. I think that is the most important thing. Take your time and yourself serious and imagine yourself as a writer and you shouldn’t, like, sit in a cafe and think, oh, what?

I would be a writer. Then I would sit here. How wonderful if I was Sartre or Simone de Beauvoir,that’s quite chic. But in your work, just imagine yourself. You would already write for an

Just to give you some idea of my working routine, it’s quite not revolutionary, but normal. I work like maybe a bureaucrat and I get up and start to write at eight o’clock and I do my morning routine. I drink a lot of coffee and write and read until my midday break and then I work again.

So it’s quite a normal more or less nine to five job, although I sometimes work after five am. So that’s not that exciting, as I said, but I think that the exciting thing about my job is that I can read whatever I want, that I can get deeper and deeper into topics, and that I have the freedom to extend my research as much as I want.

And that is really something that I think is right and wonderful and also a privilege I have to say; it’s something that, of course, I had to achieve when I wrote my first novel, I didn’t have enough money to do a lot of research and to take my time. I had to be finished by some day. So that’s some privileges that came that got bigger by every book I published․

I just would finish was with some advice for young writers. Be self-confident. I think that is the most important thing. Take your

time and yourself serious and imagine yourself as a writer and you shouldn’t, like, sit in a cafe and think, oh, what?

I would be a writer. Then I would sit here. How wonderful if I was Sartre or Simone de Beauvoir,that’s quite chic. But in your work, just imagine yourself. You would already write for an

audience, you would already write to achieve something, and that you have readers and you have also like maybe also not only the strength but also the responsibility that what you write will reach people.

And that is not just a monologue you have with yourself, but with an audience. So, I think that is something that can make you stronger and also critical about what you write and sensitive, of course. And the other suggestion is that you should always read a lot because that’s where you learn how to write and not only from your own fantasy, but also from the texts, from the literature, from the stories that are already there and from the great tradition that we have in literature. And be curious with reading, I think that is something that we in Germany can learn even more because we tend to read a lot of German literature, maybe American literature, English, French literature. But we are not so convenient with literature from other parts of the world. And I think that is something that in Germany we can discover much more. So that was my small introduction and recommendation for young female writers, maybe, but also, of course, for male writers.

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