When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.
People do not read, by and large. They watch television.
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.