I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna
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A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes...
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When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
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A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.
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If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagina...
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains o...
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
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Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.
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The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka’s friend. Kafka had dreamt him. The...
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Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, a...
