Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.