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"Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
"The best novels are the ones that change you when you're not looking."
"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
"Every place has its secrets, if you know how to look."
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. It’s not a film you can replay. It’s more like a story you tell yourself, and the story changes every time."
"To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart."
"Grief is a sort of madness, I think. It makes you do strange things."
"A novel is a world you can hold in your hands."
"The best books leave you with more questions than answers."
"Writing is a way of discovering what you didn’t know you knew."
"The best stories are those that make you see the familiar in an unfamiliar way."
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"A book is a door. You open it. You step through."
A novel is a long answer to a question you can’t quite formulate.
