Knausgaard on Writing - Esquire



Karl Ove Knausgaard 

I have to defend myself against success. So living in the countryside in Sweden is part of that because here my books don't exist. Here, I'm not a writer, I'm the Norwegian... 

I have only regretted one sentence that I've written. I had a girlfriend for four years and in the first book of My Struggle, I wrote that I never really loved her. It wasn't true and I just didn't think it would hurt her. I could have easily not written that sentence and it would be exactly the same book...
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Transtromer

  Calling Home   Our phone call spilled out into the dark and glittered between the...