"Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans."

“Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it”

“I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.”

“Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.”

Source : "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley and Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.”

“With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

“If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.”

“Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.”

Source : "Todd Akin Apologizes For ‘Legitimate Rape’ Remark, Won’t Drop Out" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”