Diana Chang Quote

One doesn't get an idea for a novel. The idea more or less gets you. It uses you as a kind of culture, the way a pearl uses an oyster.


The Third Woman (1980)


One doesn't get an idea for a novel. The idea more or less gets you. It uses you as a kind of culture, the way a pearl uses an oyster.

One doesn't get an idea for a novel. The idea more or less gets you. It uses you as a kind of culture, the way a pearl uses an oyster.

One doesn't get an idea for a novel. The idea more or less gets you. It uses you as a kind of culture, the way a pearl uses an oyster.

One doesn't get an idea for a novel. The idea more or less gets you. It uses you as a kind of culture, the way a pearl uses an oyster.