All Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
- As a person, I'm polite - I want to please. Person
- I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. Believe
- Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying. Believe
- I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always… Almost Always
- 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 level… Abstract
- I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself… All
- If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world… Activity
- You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing… Aware
- The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point… Easy
- For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do the same thing every day. Day
- I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the… Captured
- The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the… Alone
- And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only… According
- I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so… Bow
- Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. Changes
- You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in… Changed
- The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself. Care
- Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value. Concealing
- I am happy because I am no longer an author. Author
- I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as… Children