The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.