“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.”

“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.”

“Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!”

“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.”

“But this feeling with him...Severine closed her eyes and drank the moment in. Some things didn't come naturally for Severine. Yet, right now, it all flowed perfectly. This moment was written before it had ever begun. It was meant for her.”

“Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.”

“When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”