I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.