Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

• I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.

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  Heart, Emotional, Way

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

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  Lying, Believe, Want

  "A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard - review" by Stuart Evers, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

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  Pain, Distance, Perspective

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• We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.

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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Y es inquietante pensar que ni siquiera el pasado está acabado, incluso que sigue cambiando, como si en realidad sólo hubiera un tiempo, para todo, un tiempo para cada propósito bajo el cielo. Un solo segundo, un solo paisaje, en el que lo que sucede activa y desactiva lo que ya ha sucedido en interminables reacciones en cadena, como los procesos que tienen lugar en el cerebro, tal vez, donde las células florecen y mueren de repente, todo según la forma en que soplan los vientos de la conciencia.

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  Past, Reality, Cells

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• For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do the same thing every day.

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  Importante

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

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  Believe, Trying, Fiction

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• The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.

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  Children, Heart, Compassion

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• Creo que la mejor literatura tiene un núcleo que no se puede encasillar en una época o un lugar, pero que puede generar muchos significados y traducciones.

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  Thinking, Locks, Literature

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• Siempre he sido un lector rápido. Ahora tenía que hacerlo despacio, discutiendo cada frase. Y cada vez que quería cambiar algo tenía que presentar una defensa inteligente. Podía estar bastante seguro de que rechazarían mi sugerencia, ya que tenían muchos aspectos que tener en cuenta. Sin embargo, si argumentaba bien, podía tener una oportunidad. Tenía que pensar en cada coma, en cada palabra.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Mind

  "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.

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  Writing, Exercise, Insignificant Things

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Como persona, soy educada, quiero agradar.

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  Want, Polite, Please

  "Karl Ove Knausgaard: 'I have given away my soul'". Interview With Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

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  Trying, Gone, Might

  ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

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  Escribir, Emocionar, Pensar

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.

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  Strong, Writing, Giving

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• The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

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  Writing, Strange, Easy

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.

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  Escribir, pensar, jugar

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

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  Writing, Identity, Happens

  ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

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  Running, Reading, Writing

  ""Something that's not yourself." — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• En las novelas modernas intento no dejarme llevar y estar aquí, y por eso escribo sobre mi vida y sobre mí mismo. Pero incluso cuando lo hago hay un elemento de desaparición a un lugar que no soy yo. Es "el desinterés de escribir". Rara vez ocurre, pero cuando ocurre vale mucho la pena.

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  Writing, Modern Novel, Trying

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• If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

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  Escribir, Pensar, Mundo

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

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  Creativity, Stupidity, Fantasy

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• I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.

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  Feelings, Important, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

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  Gente, Manera, Diferente

  "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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