Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.