“I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.” WayHeartEmotionalDisappearExplanationNot Interested Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.” IfsThinkingWorldWritingKindStillsActivityDisappear Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.” WritingTryingDoeHappensNovelModernElementsDisappearGet AwaySelflessnessModern Novel Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.” TryingBelieveFictionLongingDisappear Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
