Needs Quotes by Nicole Krauss

10 Needs quotes by Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss offers ten reflective lines that consider needs through a literary lens. The brief selection provides a thoughtful, intimate glimpse into her nuanced thinking.

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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

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Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the…

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There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of…

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I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her…

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I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score…

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Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our…

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Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps…

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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather…

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Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity…

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She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a…

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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.

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“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a…

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“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…

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I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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“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…

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