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Karl Ove Knausgard
Norwegian Author
Born: Dec 6, 1968
About Life Me People Writing You
Related authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. S. Lewis Frederick Douglass George Orwell Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Zig Ziglar
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value. Karl Ove Knausgard
You Will Value Shameful Lead Never Concealing Anything
I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book. Karl Ove Knausgard
You Culture Book People Narcissism Reading Become Collapse No Chance Tells See About More Could Know Read First-Hand German Anyone Regularly Why Chance
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. Karl Ove Knausgard
Life Changes Develops Motion Literature Forms
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible. Karl Ove Knausgard
You People Impossible Important Say Hurting More Argue Than Literature
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me. Karl Ove Knausgard
Life Me Experience Writing Humiliation Become Real Life Guess Though Seems Something Talent Reach Terrible Within Real Handy Place Which Career
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing. Karl Ove Knausgard
Writing Free Seven Minimalist Bad More More And More Scene Write Poured Had Wrote Became Revelation Opposite Years End Did What If Eight After In The End Sentence Then Hardly Started
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life. Karl Ove Knausgard
Life Death Obligation Will Free Seen Way Though He Also Knows Artificial Form Break Even Novelist
I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell. Karl Ove Knausgard
Family Me You Hurt People Dangerous Giving Think Way Tell Could Write Around Deny Owns Story Turn Ask Who Away
I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them? Karl Ove Knausgard
Family Will Guilty About Haunt Through Write Feel Know Well Did Children Them Why Lives
In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there is something in writing, the complexity of it, that works against that aim. Karl Ove Knausgard
Truth You Experience Writing Aim Way Complexity Something Any Want Against Apologetic Works
When you use the form of a novel, and you say 'I,' you are also saying 'I' for someone else. When you say 'you,' you are simultaneously in your room writing and in the outside world - you are seeing and being seen seeing, and this creates something slightly strange and foreign in the self. Karl Ove Knausgard
Saying You Strange Writing World Seen Else Say Slightly Seeing Someone Something Outside Self Outside World Simultaneously Also Foreign Being Form Room Creates Use Your Novel
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each month. For practical reasons, that didn't work out. Karl Ove Knausgard
Work Book Books Month Out Head House Wrote Practical Work Out Reasons Twelve Each Publishing Publishing House Suggested
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book. Karl Ove Knausgard
Book First Spent New New Book Without Years Five Getting Six After Novel Second
On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read. Karl Ove Knausgard
Believe Books Read Bed Want Floor Need
When I started writing 'My Struggle,' my father was still an issue: someone I had in me every day, someone I would dream about - he was still a part of me. He was such a huge figure for me, and now he is just one among many, and that feels like a relief. Karl Ove Knausgard
Day Me Struggle Every Day Writing Father Every Relief Dream Would About Someone Had He Part Feels Like Still Issue Huge Just Just One Figure Many Now Among Started
When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred. Karl Ove Knausgard
Strength Power Those Exactly Exactly The Same Something Point Had Between Wrote Always Real Line Same Fictional Blurred Them Novels Images Starting Starting Point
When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction. So for me, it's the same thing. Karl Ove Knausgard
Me Memory Remember Same Thing About Something Write Talking End Same Fiction In The End Thing
I don't talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane - it's really insane - but it still is in me. Karl Ove Knausgard
Me Writing Feelings Reading Insane About Write Talk Feminine Still Lot Really
Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming, and I try to prepare. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all. Karl Ove Knausgard
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