You decide for yourself when it will hurt..

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something..

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room..

One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more ….

Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with phys….

...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really no….

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because ….

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books..

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards….

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through..

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books..

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it..

I write about families. That is who we are..