“It’s a relief to me to open a book by a writer I love. All the noise of life and the small-talk and the pettiness and the things that are inessential, they suddenly drop away. Everything that doesn’t matter is gone in an instant and you’re in a world where everything matters in the most critical way. I want to live there. I want to make a life there.”

—Nicole Krauss, from the documentary interview “We Create Who We Are”

Yes, this, exactly.