I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another ch….

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the ….

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not..

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives….

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're e….

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps yo….

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it..

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to..

The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people ….

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I….

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?.

And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am ….

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I..

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way t….

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the….

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me..

You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ….

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need..

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead..

I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about crea….

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can..