As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.