He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you….

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey..

Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, a….

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination..

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening..

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a ….

Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the thi….

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of….

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. ….

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a lit….

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a f….

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you..

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you..

While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town….

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be fo….

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through….

Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or ….

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out..

Trust your creativity..

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someo….

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past..