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Nicole Krauss Quotes

Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night Picture Quote #1

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen Picture Quote #1

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live Picture Quote #1

... The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world! Picture Quote #1

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all Picture Quote #1

When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything? Picture Quote #1

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Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you Picture Quote #1

... after all, who isn’t a survivor from the wreck of childhood? Picture Quote #1

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone Picture Quote #1

At night the sky is pure astronomy Picture Quote #1

After all who doesn’t wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness Picture Quote #1

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead Picture Quote #1

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Better to try and fail than not to try at all Picture Quote #1

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. When they were ten he asked her to marry him. When they were eleven he kissed her for the first time... For her sixteenth birthday he gave her an English dictionary and together they learned the words Picture Quote #1

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn’t have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips Picture Quote #1

If I had a camera,’ I said, ‘I’d take a picture of you every day. That way I’d remember how you looked every single day of your life Picture Quote #1

Then he almost but didn’t say the two sentence he’d been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you Picture Quote #1

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My first novel, ‘Man Walks Into a Room,’ is about a man who’s lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it’s about how we create a coherent sense of self Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets Picture Quote #1

It’s one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you Picture Quote #1

For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship Picture Quote #1

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 place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan Picture Quote #1

And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away Picture Quote #1

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Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night (Nicole Krauss Quotes) All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen (Nicole Krauss Quotes) The truth is the thing I invented so I could live (Nicole Krauss Quotes) ... The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world! (Nicole Krauss Quotes) Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all (Nicole Krauss Quotes) When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything? (Nicole Krauss Quotes) Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you (Nicole Krauss Quotes) ... after all, who isn’t a survivor from the wreck of childhood? (Nicole Krauss Quotes) He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone (Nicole Krauss Quotes) At night the sky is pure astronomy (Nicole Krauss Quotes) After all who doesn’t wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness (Nicole Krauss Quotes) There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead (Nicole Krauss Quotes) Better to try and fail than not to try at all (Nicole Krauss Quotes) Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. When they were ten he asked her to marry him. When they were eleven he kissed her for the first time... For her sixteenth birthday he gave her an English dictionary and together they learned the words (Nicole Krauss Quotes) I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn’t have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips (Nicole Krauss Quotes) If I had a camera,’ I said, ‘I’d take a picture of you every day. That way I’d remember how you looked every single day of your life (Nicole Krauss Quotes) Then he almost but didn’t say the two sentence he’d been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you (Nicole Krauss Quotes) At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence (Nicole Krauss Quotes) 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 (Nicole Krauss Quotes) 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 (Nicole Krauss Quotes) 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 gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect (Nicole Krauss Quotes) 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 (Nicole Krauss Quotes) My first novel, ‘Man Walks Into a Room,’ is about a man who’s lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it’s about how we create a coherent sense of self (Nicole Krauss Quotes) 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? (Nicole Krauss Quotes) 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. (Nicole Krauss Quotes) Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets. (Nicole Krauss Quotes) It’s one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you. (Nicole Krauss Quotes) For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship. (Nicole Krauss Quotes) 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 place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan. (Nicole Krauss Quotes) And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away. (Nicole Krauss Quotes)

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