I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.