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I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what’s happened – almost to calm themselves.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

I think it’s an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then… it’s sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that’s fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny – an experience I’ve never had in America!