“Our days are open and transparent, but enveloped too by the faintest m...” — Karl Ove Knausgård Quote

“Our days are open and transparent, but enveloped too by the faintest membrane of time, almost imperceptible when our gaze passes through it to consider a single day on its own. But come another day, and another after that, the membrane will thicken, that which before was as clear as day will then be blurred and faintly obscured; come yet more and only the outlines will be perceptible, until they too recede and dissolve, and what happened inside them will then be hidden from us, sealed away by time.”

“Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.”

“In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.”

“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.”

“I do think readers should respect my privacy, but I don't get angry when I get personal questions, because I understand why.”

“It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.”

“Dream as if you will not face limitations along the way. Focus your time on those dreams every single day, and you will see them manifest one day.”

“Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.”

“The past cannot be cured.”

“I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.”

“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.”