I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Daniel was twenty-three, a year younger than I was, and though he hadn’t yet published a book of poems he seemed to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
You're looking for ways always as the writer to bring readers into intimacy, you with them with you. Photos can sometimes do… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is. As such, I've never bought… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I made a point of answering the question I received with some frequency from journalists, Do you think books can change people's… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Like most music that affects me deeply, I would never listen to it while others were around, just as I would not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“When my sons asked the reason for my trip, I said that I needed to conduct research for my book. What is… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
“She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
“Doesn’t part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are no rules,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
