Book Quote by Nicole Krauss

“If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.”

Nicole Krauss

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

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I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

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

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

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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.

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

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“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…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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