“The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin’s cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.”
| — | Marian Keyes, Watermelon |
“You see I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way. It is only by showing both sides – 3 dimensions and if possible 4 that you can write the way I want to.”
| — | Ernest Hemingway |
“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”
| — | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
