“One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.” WantWritingPersonsBookDifferent Author:Nicole Krauss
“The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality is firm and unbendable. There's a whole host of questions that the book is asking about that. Why do we believe that the world is only one way and as we see it? Why are we not open to the ways in which it might be otherwise.” WorldBelieveBookRealityDarkFirmHostProvoking Author:Nicole Krauss
“The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is absolutely the case. Leading off from formal poetry, there is something about when you pay attention to form and you allow it to have its own laws and you listen to those laws you really do end up in places you wouldn't otherwise go. Which isn't to say that I believe in following the rules when I write. I don't. Each of the forms in my books feels to me new.” WritingBelieveBookI BelieveAttentionPay AttentionRhyme Author:Nicole Krauss
“Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.” BookRealizingMorningGoneSonMy Son Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it.” TryingBookHandsMightReaderCustomersShopsOwners Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.” MadeBookFeelingsLastsDangerousViolentHoles Book:Great House: A Novel Source: Great House: A Novel
“At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.” WritingBookEndsWould BeLastsWhiteRoomsAirWindPagesEmptySilentSatChairsSheetsFluttering Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)” BookLastsKnowingLast Time 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.” NeedsFeelsWritingLittlesMadeImportantBookFeltBitsFiguresNeededLittle BitDriven Author:Nicole Krauss
“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.” IfsWritingBookMysteryReader 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.” FirstsLittlesBookFiveSixLittle ThingsNotebookIllustrationSpiralsCrayon Author:Nicole Krauss
