Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 25, 1975
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanut….
I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier t….
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts..
You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair..
Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?.
Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people..
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead..
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you l….
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me..
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties..
Don't confuse honours with achievement..
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer..
Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead..
The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story..
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence..
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy..
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution..
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories..
The past is always tense, the future perfect..
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when ….
Time is how you spend your love..