Karl Ove Knausgaard Quotes

Karl Ove Knausgaard — Norwegian Author born on December 06, 1968,

Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author, known for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle... (wikipedia)

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

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

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

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

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

Karl Ove Knausgaard Quotes

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