"I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way."

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Source : "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.”

Source : "Employment of Naval Forces: 'Who Commands Sea - Commands Trade'". Monthly Newsletter, March 1948.
“As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.”

Source : Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher
“Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.”
“What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.”

Source : William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”
“Iâ€™m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the personâ€™s face from the hat and be like â€œDo you see that!â€ Itâ€™s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.”
“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”
“People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.”

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