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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

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Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

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It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.

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I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

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Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

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I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

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The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

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To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

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Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

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In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

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