Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
From Peter Ackroyd
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism.
Freud was just a novelist.
It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
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