You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.
Stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.
I don't need a reason to be kind.
The novel is the art of the unfinished, the unresolved.