“ All the books I liked were basically about the same topic. White Niggers by Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Beatles and Lead by Lars Saabye Christensen, Jack by Alf Lundell, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Last Exit… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ She always brought something when she came on Fridays, and this time it had been a book. A Wizard of Earthsea, written by someone called Ursula K. Le Guin, and already after the first few pages I knew… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura they have, and that's determined by the people who read the stuff, not by… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to the present, held together by new connections, in a complex and ingenious patt… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both had always existed. Neither could be chosen. Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Had the world been different, in my opinion, without mountains and oceans, plains and seas, deserts and forests, and consisted of something else, inconceivable to us, as we don't know anything other t… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Sometimes I would hold it in for days so that I could have a really big one and also because it felt good in itself. When I really did have to shit, so much that I could barely stand upright but had t… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he s… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Then I met Linda and the sun rose.I can't find a better way to express it. The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is where you have to look. Then… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. Karl Ove Knausgård
“ There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what he's doing. Sometimes Cain thinks he possesses a soul without shadows. That's what… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made bed, full of unfamiliar objects, with a towel and a washcloth nicely laid out, and from there straigh… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to Karl Ove Knausgård
“ And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Attributing to another author, "Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep. Karl Ove Knausgård
“ You know too little and it doesn't exist. You know too much and it doesn't exist. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens the… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good. Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, then… Karl Ove Knausgård
