"I am happy because I am no longer…" — Karl Ove Knausgard
"I am happy because I am no longer an author."
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Karl Ove Knausgard
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20 Quotes by Karl Ove Knausgard
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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…
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do…
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I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in…
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The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if…
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More Author Quotes
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
— Henry Adams
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
— Robert Benchley
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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