Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the ac…

- Patricia Duncker

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

- Patricia Duncker

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

- Patricia Duncker

You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.

- Patricia Duncker

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

- Patricia Duncker