Premjith Mathew

“Darky ate slowly, enjoying every morsel, his mouth salivating so wildly that he worried at the loud sloshing sound he made. But it was lost in all the other wet noises of the night.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Years later he would add that Italians have “no other aim than to live” because they “discovered a long time ago that there is only one life and that certainty has made them allergic to cruelty.”
― Gerald Martin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits. I don’t think many readers finishing a book ask themselves how many hours of anguish and domestic calamities those two hundred pages have cost the author or how much he received for his work …”
― Gerald Martin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life