Become Quote by Karl Ove Knausgaard

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood.…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

I am happy because I am no longer an author.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“Why should you live in a world without feeling its weight?”

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard