Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

I'm a very real person that has overcome a lot, so I think I'm relatable.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

When I have to do a scene where I feel vulnerable as an actress, I always grow from those experiences, so I welcome them. Even though it may not feel amazing at first. You have to embrace it and use it to improve yourself.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on