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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

- Julian Barnes

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In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.