You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

W- Work of ArtA- AchieverR- ResilientR- RadicalI- IndependentO- OrganizedR- Resourceful

Sometimes it's harder to say sorry, then it is to say goodbye.

The expected always happens

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

Did you know that I exist before the earth and did you know my eyes are windows to the world.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

I love films that don't end when they end, that go on in your head a couple of days later.