I had gained an insight. At great expense, but it was real and important: I was not a writer. What writers had, I did not have. I fought against this… - Karl Ove Knausgård

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I had gained an insight. At great expense, but it was real and important: I was not a writer. What writers had, I did not have. I fought against this insight, I told myself I might be able to have what writers had, it might be attainable provided I persisted for long enough, while knowing in fact this was only a consolation. - Karl Ove Knausgaard, after his year at the Bergen Writing Academy