Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.