Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

“A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way …”

“I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life …”

“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with anoth…”

“When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.”