“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.”
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
― Murder on the Orient Express
“It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made. ”
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“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.”
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