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8 May 2019 Conversations with Tyler Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
“If you can’t write, then you have to start right out from that fact. I think that’s the best advice I ever got — to accept everything that happens.”
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- 8 May 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Assumptions? Axioms? Yeah, you just have to accept them and work inside of them. That’s the only way. If you can’t write, then you have to start right out from that fact. I think that’s the best advice I ever got — to accept everything that happens. So if you have many children, it’s a good thing. If you don’t have children, it’s a good thing. You have to embrace it because that’s your life. That’s where you are, and writing should be connected to that — or painting or whatever it is. Your focus on Nazi history in part of book six of My Struggle — is that a kind of confessional for Norway and Knut Hamsun? Or the parts of Norway that were attracted to Nazism? How is that connected to the fact that you wrote a confessional about your own life?…
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