Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them f….

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations….

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one..

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers..

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea..

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me..

I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that….

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, hol….

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to ….

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside som….

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, t….

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it..

I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other ….

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed li….

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate,….

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep hav….

He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even clai….

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orp….

If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left ….

And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind ….