One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.