I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.