"Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions"

“Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.”

“Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesnt necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesnt really tell you what youre looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.”

“I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.”

“Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

“Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.”

“I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.”

“I'll try to do anything to win a game.”

“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”