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People Whose Lives Are Upside Down Often Read Fiction. When You're Not Sure Where You'll End Up Or How You Are Going To Be, And You're Looking For Some Way Forward, Fiction Is A Great Friend.

A Drinker Does Not Exist. Whatever They Say, It Is Just The Drink Talking.

There Are So Few People Given Us To Love. I Want To Tell My Daughters This, That Each Time You Fall In Love It Is Important, Even At Nineteen. Especially At Nineteen. And If You Can, At Nineteen, Count The People You Love On One Hand, You Will Not, At Forty, Have Run Out Of Fingers On The Other. There Are So Few People Given Us To Love And They All Stick.

You Write A Book And You Finish The Book. That's Your Job Done, Right? You Win The Booker And You Have A Whole New Job. You Have To Be The Thing, Right? So Instead Of Writing The Story, You Somehow Are The Story. And That I Found That Sort Of Terrible.

One Of The Reasons I Write Is I Like Being Surprised