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“What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.”
Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”
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“The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.”
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“I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.”
Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.”
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“It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.”
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“Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.”
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“I'm not sure how it is in America, but for what I can say about Germany, most people give their information willingly to anyone who asks for it such as companies like Google. We just don't question it anymore.”
Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.”
