We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Words matter, words have import.