I’ve never read Proust.
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View all 32 →I’ve never got through Ulysses.
Absolutely none. I’ve had three run-ups at Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and I conclude it must be boring because I’ve never finished it.
My new year resolution is actually to read all the classics and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read everything by the Brontë sisters.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
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View profile →The idiocy of going to Skye from New Zealand in April 2020. All of a sudden, I’m turning on the news and hearing myself as an item. I have never been more mortified.
I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
As someone who left the world slightly more interesting than he found it.
Imaginative, dull, amiable.
The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies. I started wishing people would reproduce by splitting down the middle.
My kids, and getting some of the stories I had in my head on to paper in a way that wasn’t too far removed from the thing I dreamed about writing.
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