(b. 1974– )
U.S. author
Nicole Krauss
I once read that paleontologists spend days or weeks walking an area where they think they are likely to find a fossil; at last they will spot a loose knuckle, a claw, and begin digging. If their instincts were right, that small fragment will lead them to unearth a dinosaur, which all along they had been walking back and forth above. To me, writing is like that.
“On Writing Great House,” www.nicolekrauss.com