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