I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.