What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.
Francis SpuffordWe are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
Francis SpuffordEmotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Francis SpuffordI can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
Francis Spufford