At night the sky is pure astronomy.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.