“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
“National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.” WritingHappensIdentityHappeningsNational Identity Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.” IfsWayDoneRealityHappensPastPurposeDiesHeavenProcessBrainConsciousnessHappenedWindEndlessReactionsChainsCellsLandscapeOne TimeActivateChain Reactions Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
