One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.
Nicole KraussNo, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.
Nicole KraussThe misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.
Nicole KraussThe unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.
Nicole Krauss