“The fact is, as soon as you start with words you’re locked into a debate, forced to take a position with respect… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized.… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“It was to be, and still is, an absolute staple of the Italian railways, whether public or private, that in some way or other,… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, ‘So you’ve come to demonstrate that it… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“It makes the nation possible and allows it to remain fragmented, allows people to live double lives.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“Your ticket says via Pordenone,” he told me. “Don’t you read your documento di viaggio?” I was fascinated. What kind of man is it… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“In America the lack of investment in train travel speaks eloquently of a country always ready to appear righteous but pathologically averse to surrendering… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“Once, when the minibar boy saw me promptly dump my receipt in the ashtray, he warned me that I was legally obliged to retain… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“[T]hese three days of meditation have revealed to me that every thought I think is, in one way or another, an ugly, fatuous form… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
