The First Book I Fell

You Can Only Give Things Up Once They Start To Let You Down.

Detachment Is What Interests Me, Seeing How People Couldn't Have Been Any Other Way, How They Were The Product Of Forces That They Had No Control Over.

Proust Is A Hero Of Mine. I Read 'a La Recherche' In One Go, And I'm A Very Slow Reader. It Had An Astonishing Impact, Reading It On My Own And Being My Main Company. I Think Proust Is The Most Intelligent Person To Ever Have Written A Novel.

It Seems People Spend The Majority Of Their Lives Believing They're Dying, With The Only Consolation Being That At One Point They Get To Be Right.

I See The Author As The Person Who Has Written; The Writer, The One Involved In The Process Of Writing. And They're Not Necessarily Friends. The Writer Is The One I Want To Reinforce; The Author Would Just Feed On The Reviews - So I'm In Favour Of Starving Him.