My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce. Karl Ove Knausgaard basicallyimagelandscape share on social
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. Karl Ove Knausgaard adultbackchildhood share on social
I am happy because I am no longer an author. Karl Ove Knausgaard authorhappylong Change image and share on social
You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought. Karl Ove Knausgaard changeconservativedistance share on social
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. Karl Ove Knausgaard banalcaptureidiotic Change image and share on social
The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be. Karl Ove Knausgaard basicallydifficultgood Change image and share on social
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 Knausgaard childfamilyfeel Change image and share on social
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 Knausgaard badendexpand share on social
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible. Karl Ove Knausgaard arguehurtimportant Change image and share on social
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value. Karl Ove Knausgaard concealleadshameful Change image and share on social