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22 quotes by Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her three novels Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005) and Great House (2010). Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in Best American Short Stories 2003 and Best American Short Stories 2008. Her novels have been translated into 35 languages. In 2010, she...
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward... →

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To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you... →

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The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

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When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a... →

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I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

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I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

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I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

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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... →

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For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked why, and the metaphor I came up... →

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I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it... →

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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.

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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.

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