Author: Karl Ove Knausgard

Quotes

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

- Karl Ove Knausgard

I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.

I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.

- 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.

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

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

- Karl Ove Knausgard

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

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

- Karl Ove Knausgard

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