It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.
I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.