I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

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• Karl Ove Knausgard:

  Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

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  I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of

• Karl Ove Knausgard:

  The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

• Karl Ove Knausgard:

  Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

• Karl Ove Knausgard:

  It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in

• Karl Ove Knausgard:

  You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative

• Karl Ove Knausgard:

  My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember

• Karl Ove Knausgard:

  Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impo

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  When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten

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  I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is te