A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.