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.

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it's not a particularly good book. You're in it, and you're committed to it.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.