Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

The past is what you take with you.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.