Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.
Knut HamsunA word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
Knut HamsunThere was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.
Knut HamsunIn old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Knut Hamsun