She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.