Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down..

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..

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..

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book..

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

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fi….

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

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels..

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen..

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

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored..

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

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf..

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. ….

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other..

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them..

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it….

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've f….

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles….

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

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superflu….