Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometime….
A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know wh….
It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket..
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the le….
Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once..
It's like a mathematical law, Grace..
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be s….
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever..
Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die o….
This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pul….
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out ….
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept th….
In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as….
Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another..
Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can poi….
Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise..
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world..
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do..
Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what….
Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?.
I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young..