"Success is the space one occupies..." - Elias Canetti

"Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence." - Elias Canetti.

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen.

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He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and non-fiction writer.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".