"The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there."

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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 #Strange Quotes #Easy Quotes

“With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.”
“Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Of course, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.”
“Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.”
“I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.”
“It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.”
“I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.”

Source : "Action Bronson in the Lap of Luxury". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.”
“It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.”

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