“I am happy because I am no longer an author.” — Karl Ove Knausgard Quote

“I am happy because I am no longer an author.”

“I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.”

“The notion of what is public and what is private has been dissolved. My children see documentaries; they see Instagram. Everyone is very open: it has become less taboo to expose lives.”

“If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.”

“If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.”

“I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.”