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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a land...more

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We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring ...more

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I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

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Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra p...more