Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?