"I rely heavily on rhythm when I write.……" — Per Petterson
"I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through."
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19 Quotes by Per Petterson
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A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
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One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the…
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I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not…
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If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and…
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Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time,…
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You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
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But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take…
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...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing…
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To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and…
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I hate plots.
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I write about families. That is who we are.
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1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so…
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