We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And itโs there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.
Nicole KraussI think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always at the heart of life. No matter how old you are, to me life is always about changing and growing and discovering and that's not always easy.
Nicole KraussI have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
Nicole KraussThere are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.
Nicole Krauss...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.
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