Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.