Time is how you spend your love.
Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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.