“One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.”

“Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicke...”

“You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.”

“The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.”

“Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends sorry, I meant characters.”

“Im proud to be a writer. Im doing the job all my heroes did.”

“Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”

“Almost nothing happens by accident. Theres no use getting upset and losing your peace. Sometimes out of your pain comes purpose.”

“It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he saw around him. Why do you suppose God asked man to do that? Because once you have a name, you h...”

“I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning: "The girl went through the experience that...”

“The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The wor...”

“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”

“No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.”

“First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal to build something no one had ever thought of before.”

“The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.”