Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Image is everything, self image that is.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?