Oktoberbarn Quotes

“Why do I torture myself with memories from those years? What is it that's still not resolved, over and done with? I mean, what distances haven't I traveled since then? All young people do violence to themselves. Growing up is not child's play. I've written that sentence before. Repeated sentences are irritating. Or, are they the most important ones?”
― Linda Boström Knausgård, Lokakuun lapsi

“Mindig is hallatlanul nagyra tartottam magam. Nem kellett másoktól hallanom, hogy jó író vagyok. Legbelül tudtam, még azokban az években is, amikor nem írtam. Hogy elég csak leülnöm, és jönnek a szavak.”
― Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn

“I've always known I can write as though it were a matter of life or death. It is a matter of life or death. But life isn't meaningless when I'm not writing. The writing lives inside of me, I'm just waiting for battle and my capacity to work is such that it feels like all of me is singing. It's so easy. I follow the flow of words and nothing goes wrong. If it does, I sense it right away.”
― Linda Boström Knausgård, Lokakuun lapsi

“I've always held myself in high esteem. No one needed to tell me I was good at writing: All I would have to do was sit down and the words would come. I knew like you knew you'd be capable of killing a person in battle. Give me the knife. I'll kill you. If it comes down to you versus me, know I will emerge victorious whatever the fight. Maybe my dad's words are what led me to believe I could handle anything. Anything at all. No, they were my words that I used on myself when my vision was clear. Sometimes I'd fantasize about war just to know how it felt to be invincible. Presumably a result of my genetic predisposition to delusions of grandeur which blossoms every now and then. I've always known I can write as though it were a matter of life or death.”
― Linda Boström Knausgård, Lokakuun lapsi