Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.

Acting is therapeutic.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might have flinched away from I now rush toward. Using sex as a tool to tell women's stories is endlessly fascinating.

Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.

I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.

Acting is always therapeutic.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me. If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.