"To me, a book is a book. A……" — Per Petterson
"To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere."
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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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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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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
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