All A Work Of Art Can Do

We Artists Love To Talk Tough, But We're Just As Sentimental As Everyone Else When It Comes Down To It.

The Booker Prize Is A Big, Popular Prize For Big, Popular Books, And That's The Way It Should Be.

For Memory, We Use Our Imagination. We Take A Few Strands Of Real Time And Carry Them With Us, Then Like An Oyster We Create A Pearl Around Them.

What I Was Afraid Of Was My Own Grief, The Weight Of It, The Ineluctable Corrosive Force Of It, And The Stark Awareness I Had Of Being, For The First Time In My Life, Entirely Alone, A Crusoe Shipwrecked And Stranded In The Limitless Wastes Of A Boundless And Indifferent Ocean.

All Art At A Certain Level Is Entertainment. We Go To A Tragedy By Sophocles To Be Entertained.