Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.

We all give up great expectations along the way.