Sanda

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”
― Joël Dicker, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

“A piece of writing is never good,” he told me. “There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before.”
― Joël Dicker, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

“She'd make a game of it where she'd relax all the little bits of her body, starting with her fingers and toes and working in toward the center. She had to make herself limp and draw the hurt and want into a tight core inside, each time adding another layer to that core, so that if somebody came along and cut her open, they'd find inside a shining, perfect pearl, hard as any Willy Wonka jawbreaker.”
― Laura McHugh, The Weight of Blood

“I love the razor’s edge. I want to be cut open. My terror is of a bourgeois, ordinary life. I can’t bear the everyday constraint. I believe that ordinariness would put out my spark, such as it is.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word: A Novel