Kenzaburo Oe Quotes about Writing

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I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must

I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our "personal matter," and society.

Kenzaburo Oe

Believe, Writing, Son

"Art and Healing: Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe". Interview with Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History" series of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, www.youtube.com. April 16, 1999.

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.

Kenzaburo Oe

Writing, Thinking, Cosmos

"Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Kenzaburo Oe

Writing, Style, Matter

Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1994.

Kenzaburo Oe Quotes about Writing

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