12 Quotes by Nina Freudenberger

I’ll sit in the living room and I’ll go through them, either looking for something I remember seeing, or for something to catch my eye and inspire me. And with books, there’s still an element of serendipity; you see new elements from day to day.”Kathleen Hackett & Stephen Antonson

Knausgaard alternates between periods of intense reading and not reading at all; the mountains of books are, he says, largely aspirational. He classifies them into three categories: books he wants to read, books he has to read, and books he feels he ought to read. In the last, unchanging category—which he calls the superego heap—you’ll find a large number of books on philosophy.

I have a bad memory and too many books,” distributed among four homes, “so I waste lots of time walking around searching” for a specific book. This has its upside: he’s often surprised by books he’d forgotten.