Leave aside the school punishment known as Lines and there
is not really an activity which you might call, writing sentences.
~ Prose
Improvements
There is no more a reading cure than a talking cure, just
the possibility of interludes of remission.
~ I Have
Done This in Secret
Gender is an adjectival rather than nominal aspect of
people’s selves and rarely uncomplicated.
~ The
Best I Can Do
Real imaginative achievements are closer to the banal than
the fantastic.
~
Materials and Medium: an Aesthetics
Most heroes are local heroes and temporary ones too, more
suitable for writing about in history books than parked on a plinth, their only
devotees pigeons and dogs.
~
Between Remembering and Forgetting
It’s an odd kind of intellectual life to poke around in the
textual remains of a dead man, pulling out bits with a See, he was right!
~
Silence is So Accurate
It is part of being human that often enough we don’t quite
know what we are doing.
~
Nabokov’s Dream
Authors - dead ones excepted - are obliged to promote their own work.
~ Sample Essays
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