you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.