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Karl Ove Knausgard

I don’t know why people do not read ‘Mein Kampf’ more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming, and I try to prepare. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

I don’t talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that’s feminine; writing, that’s feminine. It is insane – it’s really insane – but it still is in me.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

When I write something, I can’t remember in the end if this is a memory or if it’s not – I’m talking about fiction. So for me, it’s the same thing.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

The notion of what is public and what is private has been dissolved. My children see documentaries; they see Instagram. Everyone is very open: it has become less taboo to expose lives.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

Knut Hamsun’s writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure Erik Lund is my definite favorite.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, ‘The Birds’ – it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

I have some friends, most of them are writers or editors, whose recommendations I trust blindly. There are some critics, too, whom I trust, but not many.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

Karl Ove Knausgard

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

– Karl Ove Knausgard

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