Nicole Krauss Quotes

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.

I came to love, I came into my own.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I discovered myself!