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I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less interesting it is to me; and if it's less interesting for me, it will be that way for the reader.
If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.
