I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust. — 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
Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like… — 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
All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him… — 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
You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against… — 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
![“She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own…” quote by Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ddd/nicole-krauss-920_argument_she-my-mother-was-the-force-around-which_704012.png)
