I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.