Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

He traveled in order to come home.