If your words're true, they're armed.
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
I can write pretty much anywhere.
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
I think we think in terms of stories.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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