“Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.”
― Sleepless Nights
― Sleepless Nights
“They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.”
― Seduction and Betrayal
― Seduction and Betrayal
“Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.”
― Sleepless Nights
― Sleepless Nights
“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“I was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about it except that it is wonderful. The people are not characters, there is no plot in the usual sense. What can you bring to bear: verisimilitude — to what? You can merely say over and over that it is very good, very beautiful, that when you were reading it you were happy.”
― Seduction and Betrayal
― Seduction and Betrayal
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