Status Updates From Nimetön intohimo

“I write to be coarsened, to be torn to pieces, and then to lose my importance, to unburden myself—for the text to take my place so that I exist less.”

“To write isn’t to tell a story, but to evoke what there is around it; you create around the story, one moment after another. Everything there is, but everything which might also not be or which might be interchangeable—like the events of life. The story and its unreality, or its absence.”

“And indeed, if people don’t finish the books they read, that’s because the books are highly pretentious—stupidly pretentious in wanting to refer on to something beyond . . .”

“I took to writing to make the silence speak—that silence under which I’d been crushed. At twelve, that seemed to me the only way.”