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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...more

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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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Art is fire plus algebra.

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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...more

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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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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

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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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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...more

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Paradise will be a kind of library

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.