Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.