The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.

But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.