“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”
“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”
“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”
“Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.”
“When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.”
“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.”