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 bitebookdrive Change image and share on social
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 architecturalattractivecome share on social
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 houselivelong Change image and share on social
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 animalcoverdinner Change image and share on social
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. Nicole Krauss basefeelfictional Change image and share on social
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 agodaddecade Change image and share on social
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. Nicole Krauss begincharactercreate Change image and share on social
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 18thcenturycoin Change image and share on social
I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind. Nicole Krauss characterdavidgrossman share on social
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. Nicole Krauss alienatecharacterfall Change image and share on social
