“the past is now barely present in my thoughts. I believe the main reason for that is our children, since life with… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Our days are open and transparent, but enveloped too by the faintest membrane of time, almost imperceptible when our gaze passes through… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming,… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“A lot happens in our everyday life, but it always happens within the same routine, and more than anything else it has… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“I, for my part, never looked forward to anything except the moment the office door closed behind me and I was alone… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain that had to be covered, with the future as a distant… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“I was a wannabe who was actually unable to write because I had nothing to say, who wasn’t honest enough with himself to draw… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom,… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“the past is now barely present in my thoughts. I believe the main reason for that is our children, since life with them in… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“I loved it, I loved the feeling, it was my favorite feeling, but it never led to anything good, and the day after or… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both had always… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
