"To live is to be haunted by the ghosts of what might have been."
"Writing is a way to create something out of nothing."
"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."
Literature is the memory of humanity.
Every artist is a child of his time, but the great ones are also the parents of the future.
Sometimes you may feel like you’re not good enough, but you are.