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“Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.”

W. G. Sebald

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I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

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“In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my house. When I get up early in the morning, I find them clinging to the wall, motionless. I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out…

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When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I…

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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point…

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I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.

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The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

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I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life,…

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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest…

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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

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Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

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It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

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