“Later she came to realise that under one reality theres always another. And another one under that.”

“Her works are said to be too far from reality to be considered real literature. Why doesnt she write about life? the people of Rabbit Back ask.”

“Amateur detectives in fiction had always annoyed Ella. They were so unrealistic. She didnt intend to be the Rabbit Back version of Miss Marple or a cheap Baker Street knock-off, and she really didn...”

“Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Selnt had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.”

“Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? Its a romantic idea, but its complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.”

“I would be happy to take credit for all of the wonderful experiences I describe in my novels, but my life isnt quite that rich. Unfortunately we authors are sometimes forced to use other peoples li...”

“Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“If you only write when youre inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but youll never be a novelist because youre going to have to make your word count today and those words arent going to wait fo...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”