I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.