Nicole Krauss Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?”

“You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.”

“I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.”

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

“I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.”

“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.”

“What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.”

“Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.”

“I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.”

“I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.”