My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
Elfriede JelinekThe first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
Elfriede JelinekEroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
Elfriede JelinekStrictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
Elfriede JelinekCharacters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.
Elfriede Jelinek