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Karl Ove Knausgard has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And…
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and…
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I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be…
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If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which…
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You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me…
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The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there…
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For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do the same…
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I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a…
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The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one…
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Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes…
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
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I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected…
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Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers -…
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What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No…
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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
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is…
— E L Doctorow
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
— Calvin Trillin
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science…
— Roland Barthes
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What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
— Stephen King
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