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Nicole Krauss

If the book is a mystery to its author as she’s writing, inevitably it’s going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

– Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

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

Nicole Krauss

The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory – and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place – the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

– Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

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

– Nicole Krauss

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

Nicole Krauss

I’m very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

– Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

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

– Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

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

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.

– Nicole Krauss

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.

– Nicole Krauss

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.

– Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

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

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