The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opinion of you.

The secret of happiness is to be happy already

He came attached to the case. ... I didn't know much about his biography before I started, and I hadn't read him since I was 20, I suppose. But in the process of research and writing, I found him to be a very admirable and a moral and warmhearted person.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.