Jon Fosse says he would have stopped writing 40 years ago if he had listened to critics

"And if my writing also can help to save the lives of others, nothing would make me happier."

"When I write, at a certain point I always get a feeling that the text has already been written, is out there somewhere, not inside me, and that I just need to write it down before the text disappears," he said.

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