…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.