Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.