Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
