“To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.” Quote by Kevin Sessums
“If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.” IfsRealityLandWindRainSnowIceTemperature Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.” WritingFirstsWholeMightNovelConnectionsSymmetry Author:Nicole Krauss
“I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.” FirstsSometimesStrongRoomsNovelDoorsBuildingArchitectureVery Strong Author:Nicole Krauss
“I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.” ThinkingNeedsWritingSometimesFormCertainRealizingLinesReaderMusicalScoreResolution Author:Nicole Krauss
“What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.” ThinkingWritingLongInterestAbilityOur Lives Author:Nicole Krauss
“The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.” AbleLiteratureSituationStepsConditionsUniqueUnique Things Author:Nicole Krauss
“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
“For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.” WayWritingMotherFatherPowerfulExampleSonRegretAbsenceMost PowerfulFacing DeathNew Mother Author:Nicole Krauss
“Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.” ProfoundComplexesDeeper Author:Nicole Krauss