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“Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.”
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“I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.”
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“The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.”
Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.66, Vintage
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“Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.”
Source : Interview With Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010. 
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“I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.”
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“Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category”
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“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
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“There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.”
Source : Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.
