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Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

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

Karl Ove Knausgard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: December 6, 1968

Topics

Life Literature Changes Motion Forms

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.

January Political Media Year Left

People ask me about staying here. I think they assume that I wouldn't want to come back to a place like Mississippi, which is so backward and which frustrates me a lot. The responsibility that I feel to tell these stories about the people and the place that I'm from is what pulls me back.

Responsibility People Me Think Feel

It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

Michael Connelly

Decision Crime Become Fiction Writer

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Legs Emergency Coward Who Thinks

When I was 18, I went to India and was stupid enough to drink the tap water. I ended up with dysentery. It's not an experience I wish to go through again.

Tom Parker Bowles

Water Experience Stupid Wish Enough

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.

Michael T. Flynn

Potential Long Soldier Chief Been

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

Influence Feel Who Like Writer Any

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

Good Sad People Feel Good Voice

I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons.

Tough View Open Experiences Gifts

I have a gruff character.

Brigitte Bardot

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

Thought Never Ball Kick Able Again

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Learn You Wild Need Sandwich Horses

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