” Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. “
” 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. “
” When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants – that that’s our purpose. “
” Form is, in a way, death. A novelist’s obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life. “
” When I started out on ‘Min Kamp’, I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write something majestic and grand, something like ‘Hamlet’ or ‘Moby Dick,’ but found myself with this small life – looking after kids, changing diapers, quarreling with my wife, unable to write anything, really. “
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