I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that’s sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living. Nicole Krauss Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. Nicole Krauss Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well. Nicole Krauss Read Quote
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. Nicole Krauss Read Quote
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. Nicole Krauss Read Quote
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another’s life. Nicole Krauss Read Quote
