there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

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

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.