335 Quotes by Nicole Krauss

My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

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.

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.