When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? Nicole Krauss More Quotes by Nicole Krauss More Quotes From Nicole Krauss I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close. Nicole Krauss musical writing thinking Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first. Nicole Krauss connections writing might The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition. Nicole Krauss able unique literature One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. Nicole Krauss different writing book Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets. Nicole Krauss complexes deeper profound In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life. Nicole Krauss youth kind feelings When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with unexpected complexity; some of it asked for, and some of it not. It becomes richer, I find. Nicole Krauss filled complexity unexpected For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship. Nicole Krauss regret powerful mother The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark. Nicole Krauss paid volume dark