Top 21 Quotes by Nicole Krauss

About Nicole Krauss

These are some quotes by American author Nicole Krauss Author, who was born on August 18, 1974.

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.

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

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.

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

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

Nicole Krauss

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.

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

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

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

Nicole Krauss

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

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

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.

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

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

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

Nicole Krauss

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

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