Italy is not a country for beginners.

- Tim Parks

If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized. Games, reference…

- Tim Parks

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by…

- Tim Parks

Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you …

- Tim Parks

More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance.…

- Tim Parks

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

- Tim Parks