A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
From Italo Calvino
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.
New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.
I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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