• When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

    Nicole Krauss: When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.
    Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company