"I'm not interested in the words or the……" — Karl Ove Knausgard
"I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That's the way music works for me. It's purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That's just it."
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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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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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And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if…
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