At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.