There Are Many Things I’ve

What I Said About John Was That He Liberated Me From My Anxieties About Writing In A Correct, Acceptable Way.

Write About The Things That Attract You. Choose Your Subjects The Way You Used To Choose Your Toys: Out Of Desire.

Translation Is The Paradigm, The Exemplar Of All Writing.... It Is Translation That Demonstrates Most Vividly The Yearning For Transformation That Underlies Every Act Involving Speech, That Supremely Human Gift.

I Think Situations Are More Important Than Plot And Character.

I Also Had This Mistaken Dream, Fantasy Really - Perhaps Because I'm Good At Languages - Of Being Able In Both Italy And France To Become Someone Else Through My Fluency In The Language.