To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.