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I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

I think you're confusing God with a genie.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire.

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life
real life
was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. - Italo Calvino

There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.