Nicole Krauss Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.

  Nicole Krauss

  Healing, Mean, Literature

• To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Reading, Literature, Privilege

• 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

• No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.

  Nicole Krauss

  Lying, Writing, Ideas

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

• The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

  Nicole Krauss

  Unique, Literature, Able

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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