We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.

You're a library of me.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.