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Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss
American Author
Born: Aug 18, 1974
Book Lost Me Sense Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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. Nicole Krauss
Time Word Lost Sense Severe Pathology Nostalgia Century Much Used Describe Homesickness
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. Nicole Krauss
You Long Live Think Both Long Period Writer Over Period Reader Course Houses Them Novels
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. Nicole Krauss
Me Old Gave Write Take Almost Leather Decade Green Notebook Notes Dad
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. Nicole Krauss
Life Man Memory First Lost Walks Sense About Self How His Room Create Novel Level Start Second Coherent
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. Nicole Krauss
Life Me Reading Allowed Step Another Singular Privilege Literature
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well. Nicole Krauss
Memory Ways Structure Well Does How Very Different Stories Interested Multiple Different Ways
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? Nicole Krauss
Life Music You Sense Everything Inside Write Part Feel Like Most Powers Does How Surface Quickly Person Sensations Cut Regrets Suddenly Away Inner Desire Inner Life
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. Nicole Krauss
Myself Freedom Become Lost Difficult Uncertain More Writer Allow Because Territory Always Am Go Frightening Trying Wander Place Plan Awkward
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. Nicole Krauss
Writing World Illusion Think Draw One Of The Things About Architectural Gives Attractive Always Am Metaphors Coming Up Very Literature Meaning Us Connect Things
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. Nicole Krauss
Book Writing Mystery He He Or She She Reader Reads Inevitably Author Going

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