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Me Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need…
- I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people…
- I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade…
- To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
- What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
- You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to…
- For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked…
- I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others…
- I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just…
- ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water…
- . . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then…
- Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One…
- ... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me…
- Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also,…
- I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better…
- Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt…
- Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
- All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that…
- What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and…
- When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach…
- Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed…
- Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat…
- Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He…
- The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives…
- When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale