To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Ernst Fischer Politician
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: Austria
- Born: Jul 3, 1899
- Died: Jul 31, 1972
Ernst Fischer, also known under the pseudonyms: "Ernst Peter Fischer", "Peter Wieden", "Pierre Vidal", and "Der Miesmacher", was a Bohemian-born Austrian journalist, writer and politician.