I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.
Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.
As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.
I like to introduce a few lost gems when I can to fellow word-lovers, and would genuinely love some of them to make a comeback.
