Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

Everything I think is in pictures.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

I'm a hypervisual person.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

I like visual imagery in my head.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

I have a visual imagination.

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.