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Nicole Krauss Quotes
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Nicole Krauss
American
Author
Born:
Aug 18
,
1974
Book
Lost
Me
Sense
Writing
You
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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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