Quotes from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle Book Two:
“For if there was one thing I had learned over the last six months it was that what all writing was about was writing. Therein lay all its value. Yet I wanted to have more of what came in its wake because public attention is a drug, the need it satisfies is artificial, but once you have had a taste of it you want more.” (pg. 73)
“His novel Black Crab had something that raised it above the mist of morals and politics others were cloaked in. Not that it was a fantastic novel, but he was searching for something different. That was the sole obligation literature had, in all other respects it was free, but not in this, and when writers disregarded this they did not deserve to be met with anything but contempt.” (pg. 93)
“What was odd about these months was the way in which we came closer to each other and grew apart. Linda did not bear grudges, and after something had happened, it had happened, it was over. For me, it was different. I held grudges, and every single one of these incidents over the last year lay somehow stored inside me. At the same tim I understood what had happened, the sparks of anger that had begun to fly in our lives that first autumn were linked with what had been lost in our relationship, Linda was afraid of losing the rest, she was trying to bind me and my shying away from these bonds increased the distance and that was precisely what she feared.” (pg. 278)