The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

My films are about embarrassment.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.