We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of… — Karl Ove Knausgard Book Copy Share Image
“For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in… — Karl Ove Knausgård Books 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… — Karl Ove Knausgard Abstract Copy Share Image
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In… — Karl Ove Knausgård Academic Copy Share Image
“The houses where we lived were still standing, all of them. The sole difference, which is the difference between a child’s reality… — Karl Ove Knausgård Children Copy Share Image
“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and… — Karl Ove Knausgård Physics Copy Share Image
Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, 'The Birds' - it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and… — Karl Ove Knausgard 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
“Was it Jesus you saw a picture of?” he says and looks up at me. If it had not been for the… — Karl Ove Knausgård Christian 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 Beer Copy Share Image
“In the mist, in the darkness of the forest, in the dewdrops on the spruce needles. In the whales that swam 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… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“With its four legs and its flat, soft surface, the bed gently accommodates one of our most basic needs: it is good… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Modernist literature with all its vast apparatus was an instrument, a form of perception, and once absorbed, the insights it brought could… — Karl Ove Knausgård Books Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me… — Karl Ove Knausgard 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 Knausgard Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Books Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“... me silent, serious, tormented by the thought that I was silent and serious. Especially together with Bendik, who chatted and laughed… — Karl Ove Knausgård Psychology 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 Black and white Copy Share Image
“There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura… — Karl Ove Knausgård Aura Copy Share Image
“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Art 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… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure… — Karl Ove Knausgard Alive Copy Share Image
When I started writing 'My Struggle,' my father was still an issue: someone I had in me every day, someone I would… — Karl Ove Knausgard Day Copy Share Image
“I sipped the coffee and lit a cigarette. I can't say that I enjoyed the taste of coffee or the feeling of… — Karl Ove Knausgård 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… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
The notion of what is public and what is private has been dissolved. My children see documentaries; they see Instagram. Everyone is… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Desire Copy Share Image
“I wanted dad’s life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank… — Karl Ove Knausgård Children Copy Share Image
“I liked these short stories so much, but I couldn’t write like this, I didn’t have the imagination. I didn’t have any… — Karl Ove Knausgård Imagination 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
“But I could see that she was not having the same experience as me, she was lying as before, with eyes closed,… — Karl Ove Knausgård Lying Copy Share Image
“When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its… — 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
