May books spread the world over!

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.