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Nicole Krauss is an American author born on August 18, 1974. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into human emotions.

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“All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.”

Want Dies Unseen History Of Love

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.”

Ifs World Littles Sometimes Forget Sun Dying Return Encouragement Usual Schedules

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“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.”

Trying Lost Difficult Plans Wander Territory Awkward Frightening Uncertain Always Trying

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.”

Needs Feels Writing Littles Made Important Book Felt Bits Figures Needed Little Bit Driven

Author:Nicole Krauss

“David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.”

May Ends Powerful Taken Land Essence Touched Gifted Undone Shattering Gifted Writers

Author:Nicole Krauss

“If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Space Empty Empty Space Most Romantic Literary Love History Of Love

Book:The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.”

World Littles Bits Walks Numbers Study Taken Modern Cold Reader Offers Little Bit Infinite Photograph Bookstores Modern Day

Author:Nicole Krauss

“What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.”

Humans Mean Literature Healing Conversation Sentences Endless Single Sentence What It Means To Be Human

Author:Nicole Krauss

“And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)”

Ifs Children Dies Fate Cry One Day Bitter Grandma Time Passes

Book:Great House

Source: Great House

“The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.”

Ideas Ends Moments Remember Left Memories Perfect Happened Details Stuck Clarity Data Disorder Elsewhere Rejected Survived Fragments Vagrants Samson

Book:Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.”

Writing Impossible Oneself Deeper Awakening Distrust

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“There's no match for the silence of GOD.”

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“Better to try and fail than not to try at all”

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

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

Character Fall Written Solitary Spectrum

Author:Nicole Krauss

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

Feels Important Stories Reality Reader Realised Fictional Stories

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

People Lying Animal Talking Tables Dinner Grass Dinner Table

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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.”

Writing Dad Green Notes My Dad Decades Notebook Leather

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“I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.”

Thinking Long Courses House Novel Reader Periods

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“I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.”

Way Wells Doe Different Stories Memories Structure Different Ways Multiple

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“If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.”

Ifs Writing Book Mystery Reader

Author:Nicole Krauss

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

Ends Left Ambition Fades Bruises Accolades

Author:Nicole Krauss

“To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.”

Reading Literature Steps Privilege Reading Literature

Author:Nicole Krauss

“What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.”

Writing Kind Character Stories Voice Interest Novel

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

Stills Hard Feelings My Own Doubt Imagine

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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 with was about poems as rooms. You can make a room perfect, but then you have to shut the door and never go back, whereas a novel is like a house - it can never be perfect, but you can make a life in it.”

Firsts House Perfect Rooms Novel Doors Metaphor Places To Live

Author:Nicole Krauss

“I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.”

Firsts Littles Book Five Six Little Things Notebook Illustration Spirals Crayon

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

Thinking World Giving Writing Literature Draws Illusion Metaphor Attractive

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Used Choices Former Cosmic Sheer Equations Live Well Lunacy Writing Well

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

Knows Mind Looks Character Walks Know How Imagine Mines Opposites Smell Vague

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

Men Firsts Self Lost Memories Walks Levels Rooms Novel Sense Of Self

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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?”

Feels Writing Persons Doe Desire Cutting Regret Longing Surface Sensations Inner Life

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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 can't imagine what that's like.”

Night Black Sleep Silence Imagine Listening Moon Desert Valleys Just Listen Pitch Black

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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 severe homesickness.”

Used Lost Century Nostalgia Severe 18th Century Homesickness Pathology Lost Time

Author:Nicole Krauss

About the Author

Born: August 18, 1974
Known for: Author
Quotes: 233

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