Nicole Krauss Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

  Nicole Krauss

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Sky

• Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Giving, Misunderstood

• It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

  Nicole Krauss

  Heart, Giving, Mind

• All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.

  Nicole Krauss

  Empty Rooms, Doors, Self

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.259, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

• The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

  Nicole Krauss

  Giving, Advice, Malpractice

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.84, Anchor

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