You Can't Put Your Feet

I Was Very Moved To See That The Name Of The Boat Was Hamlet - An Imaginary Character Becomes So Important To People, We Think About Them So Much That We Name A Ship After Them. The Imaginary Lives On In The Real.

You're Too Good For This World, And Because Of That The World Will Eventually Crush You.

Artists Are The People For Whom The World Is Not Enough.

I Never Experiment With Anything In My Books. Experimentation Means You Don't Know What You're Doing.

I Sometimes Feel That My Goal As A Novelist Would Be To Write A Novel In Which The Language Was So Transparent That The Reader Would Forget That Language Was The Medium Of Understanding. Of Course That's Not Possible, But It's Some Sort Of Idealized Goal.