“Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Adventure Copy Share Image
“Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Life Copy Share Image
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book. — Karl Ove Knausgard Book Copy Share Image
I do think readers should respect my privacy, but I don't get angry when I get personal questions, because I understand why. — Karl Ove Knausgard Angry Copy Share Image
For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do the same… — 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 Best literature Copy Share Image
“The thought of this could sometimes weigh me down because I wanted so much to be someone. I wanted so much to… — Karl Ove Knausgård Thought Copy Share Image
I have some friends, most of them are writers or editors, whose recommendations I trust blindly. There are some critics, too, whom… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“I asked him whether he was still with the woman he had met, whose name I didn’t even know. ‘No, I’m not,’… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone. — Karl Ove Knausgard Adversity Copy Share Image
“The heavens were inexhaustible, it had rained every day since the beginning of September and except for a couple of hours I… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there… — Karl Ove Knausgard Books Copy Share Image
I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see… — Karl Ove Knausgard Books 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… — Karl Ove Knausgård Child Copy Share Image
I don't talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane -… — Karl Ove Knausgard Feelings 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… — Karl Ove Knausgard Books Copy Share Image
When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write… — Karl Ove Knausgard Life Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I saw what Espen and I did through Yngve’s eyes, then we were transformed into two nerds sitting alone and reading… — Karl Ove Knausgård Books Copy Share Image
“Why this should be so is hard to say; one might be tempted to believe that it was based on some ancient… — Karl Ove Knausgård Nature Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows which way modernism is going, you create a form by breaking up a form, in an endless regression, just let… — Karl Ove Knausgård Modernism Copy Share Image
I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Then I met Linda and the sun rose. I can't find a better way to express it. The sun rose in my… — Karl Ove Knausgård Better way Copy Share Image
“Had the world been different, in my opinion, without mountains and oceans, plains and seas, deserts and forests, and consisted of something… — Karl Ove Knausgård Appearances Copy Share Image
“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it… — Karl Ove Knausgård Children Copy Share Image
“Dear Karl Ove Knausgård, Thank you for sending me your contribution. I read it with interest, but I am afraid I cannot… — Karl Ove Knausgård 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Few things are harder to visualise than that a cold snowbound landscape, so marrow-chillingly quiet and lifeless, will, within mere months, be… — Karl Ove Knausgård Blue sky Copy Share Image
“Yes, all of this I thought about, all of this filled me with sorrow and a sense of helplessness, and if there… — Karl Ove Knausgård Comfortable life Copy Share Image
“What a stupid, fucking, idiotic country this was. All the young women drank water in such vast quantities that it was coming… — 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… — Karl Ove Knausgård Future Copy Share Image
“... to sit alone in a bar chatting with strangers would have been inconceivable for me, it was closer to my nature… — Karl Ove Knausgård Nature Copy Share Image
“All erect dicks are bent. Or, if not all, then at least enough of them to be eulogized in a poem.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Erect Copy Share Image
Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm… — Karl Ove Knausgard Curse Copy Share Image
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Life Copy Share Image
When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Defeat 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 Time Copy Share Image
National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
