Andrea Strømskag

“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley

“Money's scarce
Times are hard
Here's your fucking
Xmas card”
― Phyllis Diller

“I can’t speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that’s the deepest motivation, and it is so because I’m full of self-loathing and shame. Writing doesn’t make me a better person, nor a wiser and happier one, but the writing, the text, the novel, is a creation of something outside of the self, an object, kind of neutralized by the objectivity of literature and form; the temper, the voice, the style; all in it is carefully constructed and controlled. This is writing for me: a cold hand on a warm forehead.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard

“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”
― Antonio Gramsci