No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.