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There’s no end, no tedium, in a lifelong love affair with language, just small endings when you reach the conclusion…
I don’t know exactly when I gave up pretensions to being a serious reader, but the crime and children’s books…
I had only just learned to read, and deciphering Mary’s idiosyncratic script was one of the pleasures of reading the…
Reading as a writer and not just as a reader is a different experience, both richer and less carefree; instead…
Remember that too, that silly optimism, because no one believes more in your work than you and your belief is…
I’ve watched films that have been adapted from books or short stories and then I read the original material to…
Chinua, an Igbo from Nigeria of my father’s generation, who wrote Things Fall Apart with its title by an Irishman…
Iris Murdoch advised me to put something for everybody into my novels. She meant that a novel has to work…
These days I tell myself that if I can’t find a scrap of paper it doesn’t matter, because if the…
Remember to celebrate the present because, although it’s hard to believe, things will not stay the same forever. Remember to…
I don’t binge on authors… I couldn’t do that. I am simply too slow a reader. I don’t binge on…
An integral part of the thinking process, with results that would never have been reached without this process. An integral…
