I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
Nicole KraussOnly now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.
Nicole KraussI think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
Nicole KraussTo me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
Nicole KraussThat powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
Nicole Krauss