The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“But in the end, it isn’t up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.” — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it… — 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
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know… — 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
“I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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