I’ve always thought of myself as shy.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.