Per Petterson Quotes

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• A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
• One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on…
• I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the…
• If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it....
• Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside…
• You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
• But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to…
• ...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and…
• To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine.…
• I hate plots.
• I write about families. That is who we are.
• 1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things happened - in…
• Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
• I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.
• A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.
• I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
• Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty of time to be…
• In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it…
• I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am…

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