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• I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I…
• It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
• All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little…
• All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
• Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in…
• Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
• For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an…
• I am the worst judge of my books.
• I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
• I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
• I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.
• I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

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