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

Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?

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

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.