Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.
When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
I've actually not read any books on time management.
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.