Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.
Jesse BallThe books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.
Jesse BallI have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.
Jesse BallFirst, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.
Jesse Ball