--- title: "12 Long Quotes By Nicole Krauss" description: "12 Long quotes by Nicole Krauss. Plus more from Nicole Krauss and more Long sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/nicole-krauss-920_books_i-think-of-novels-as-houses-you-live-in_3020.png" --- > [I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-think-of-novels-as-houses-you-live-in-them-over-the-course-of-a/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/nicole-krauss-920_books_i-think-of-novels-as-houses-you-live-in_3020.png) > [What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/what-interests-me-very-much-as-a-writer-is-the-ability-for-writing-to/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96e/nicole-krauss-920_ability_what-interests-me-very-much-as-a-writer_2026242.jpg) > [And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/and-if-the-man-who-once-upon-a-time-had-been-a-boy-who-promised-he-d/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/nicole-krauss-920_boys_and-if-the-man-who-once-upon-a-time-had_1829369.jpg) > [Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/sometimes-no-length-of-string-is-long-enough-to-say-the-thing-that/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f61/nicole-krauss-920_cases_sometimes-no-length-of-string-is-long-en_55898.png) > [Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/obviously-i-ve-been-reading-kafka-for-a-long-long-time-since-i-was/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/nicole-krauss-920_kind_obviously-i-ve-been-reading-kafka-for-a_45850.png) > [The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-misery-of-other-people-is-only-an-abstraction-something-that-can/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5e/nicole-krauss-920_compassion_the-misery-of-other-people-is-only-an-ab_1267973.jpg) > [You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/you-re-lost-in-your-own-world-in-the-things-that-happen-there-and-you/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/915/nicole-krauss-920_awake_you-re-lost-in-your-own-world-in-the-thi_609659.png) > [Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/our-kiss-was-niticlimactic-it-wasn-t-that-the-kiss-was-bad-but-it-was/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/nicole-krauss-920_agreement_our-kiss-was-niticlimactic-it-wasn-t-tha_3030850.jpg) > [She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-was-gone-and-all-that-was-left-was-the-space-you-d-grown-around/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f6/nicole-krauss-920_empty_she-was-gone-and-all-that-was-left-was-t_2765913.png) > [That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/that-he-liked-to-think-of-himself-as-a-philosopher-that-he-questioned/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/nicole-krauss-920_answers_that-he-liked-to-think-of-himself-as-a-p_655046.png) > [The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-truth-was-i-d-given-up-waiting-long-ago-the-moment-had-passed-the/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/nicole-krauss-920_blow_the-truth-was-i-d-given-up-waiting-long_2662711.jpg) > [Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/once-upon-a-time-you-were-a-fish-how-do-you-know-because-i-was-also-a/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/nicole-krauss-920_champion_once-upon-a-time-you-were-a-fish-how-do_514825.png) ## Other authors on Long ## More by Nicole Krauss > [“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/narrative-cannot-sustain-formlessness-any-more-than-light-can-sustain/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-think-of-novels-as-houses-you-live-in-them-over-the-course-of-a/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/when-we-went-into-the-ocean-i-watched-his-body-as-he-dove-into-the/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/there-are-times-when-the-kindness-of-strangers-only-makes-matter/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-was-gone-and-all-that-was-left-was-the-space-where-you-d-grown/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-air-felt-different-in-my-lungs-the-world-no-longer-looked-the/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-first-language-humans-had-was-gestures-there-was-nothing/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-feel-really-strongly-about-not-wanting-to-overly-guide-the-reader/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/mom-i-said-she-turned-can-i-talk-to-you-about-something-of-course/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/in-one-s-youth-one-has-tremendous-access-to-one-s-feelings-and-as-one/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/obviously-i-ve-been-reading-kafka-for-a-long-long-time-since-i-was/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-s-kept-her-love-for-him-as-alive-as-the-summer-they-first-met-in/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/sometimes-no-length-of-string-is-long-enough-to-say-the-thing-that/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/doesn-t-part-of-the-awe-that-fills-us-when-we-confront-the-unknown/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are no rules,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-knew-how-to-raise-my-own-child-what-did-he-think-it-was-a-game-of/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long/nicole-krauss/#itemlist", "name": "12 Long Quotes By Nicole Krauss", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think of novels as houses. 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