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> [I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/i-m-giving-away-my-family-s-story-who-owns-the-family-s-story-i-don-t/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

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## More by Karl Ove Knausgaard

> [I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/i-do-feel-guilty-i-do-especially-about-my-family-my-children-i-write/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/the-difficult-thing-for-me-is-that-i-want-basically-to-be-a-good-man/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/it-s-one-thing-to-be-banal-stupid-and-idiotic-on-the-inside-it-s/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/as-your-perspective-of-the-world-increases-not-only-is-the-pain-it/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/when-it-comes-to-memories-of-that-iconic-type-memories-that-are/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [I am happy because I am no longer an author.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/i-am-happy-because-i-am-no-longer-an-author/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/life-develops-changes-is-in-motion-the-forms-of-literature-are-not/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [“Why should you live in a world without feeling its weight?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/why-should-you-live-in-a-world-without-feeling-its-weight/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/form-is-in-a-way-death-a-novelist-s-obligation-is-to-break-free-from/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/you-can-write-a-radical-norwegian-or-a-conservative-norwegian-and/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/my-memory-is-basically-visual-that-s-what-i-remember-rooms-and/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [“Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/until-i-moved-to-stockhold-i-had-felt-there-was-a-continuity-to-my/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [“Writing is more about destroying than creating" (195).”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/writing-is-more-about-destroying-than-creating-195/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/i-m-giving-away-my-family-s-story-who-owns-the-family-s-story-i-don-t/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

> [My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgaard/my-intention-throughout-has-been-to-write-to-create-literature-and-to/)

[Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgaard/)

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