American - Author | August 18, 1974 -
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
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.
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I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
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I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
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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?
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I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
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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.
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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.
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