"...The plural of elf is elves! What a……" — Nicole Krauss

"...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!"

— 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 Elf Quotes

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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a… — Orlando Bloom
Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a… — Orlando Bloom
I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad… — Orlando Bloom
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what… — William Shakespeare
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or… — C.S. Lewis
Call me Elf......one more time! — Peter Dinklage
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to… — Verne Troyer
I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone… — Orlando Bloom
I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf — Parker Posey
The Democratic Party headquarters house elf, — Dennis Kucinich
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort… — Terence McKenna

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