Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
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