When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.
Oh, it’s a terrible, cruel thing—first you’re young, and that takes up such a long time you think it’s forever, then suddenly you’re not young, and you never get used to it—and, oh dear, there’s just...
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
A hero can be fool, he's still a hero.
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.
We’re sick of ourselves.
Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.
She was there beside him, an incalculable distance away.
Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaw...
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a logical consistency, or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it’s inaudible.
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and...
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the...
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite...
P.J. said, That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know.Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it.Yeah. But some statements are...
I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.
How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words.Never to doubt that you will live to utter them.Never to doubt that you will tell .
First marriage, and nothing so sweet! You don’t know it at the time.
