Nicole Krauss Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Nicole Krauss:

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

Nicole Krauss

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

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

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

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

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

Nicole Krauss

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

Nicole Krauss

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

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Nicole Krauss