"Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages……" — Nicole Krauss

"Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet."

— Nicole Krauss

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160 Quotes by Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's…
All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or…
The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and…
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a…
David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering,…
If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number…
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it…
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to…
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all,…
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

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More Dictionary Quotes

This quote is filed under Dictionary Quotes, one of 340 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. — Dave Barry
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The word impossible is not in my dictionary. — Napoleon Bonaparte
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf."" — George Carlin
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to… — Remy de Gourmont

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