Money Quote by Nicole Krauss

“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly…

— 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…

— Nicole Krauss

When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my…

— Nicole Krauss

“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and…

— Nicole Krauss

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

— Nicole Krauss

“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a…

— Nicole Krauss

“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that…

— Nicole Krauss

I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…

— Nicole Krauss

Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…

— Nicole Krauss

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But…

— Nicole Krauss

Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew…

— Nicole Krauss

“She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes…

— Nicole Krauss