All my words are sort of shaped, all my words, my voice, my gestures, my imagination, are shaped by centuries, really. They are educated from afar. And these are the utensils that we borrowed from all of humanity, really. So… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image