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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

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