“You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.” ThinkingWritingTryingWellsKindPlayFeelingsSentences Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.” IfsWayImportantFeelingsEmotionOriginalsImportant ThingsDetailsTranslationsCapturedPublication Author:Karl Ove Knausgard