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From Graham Greene, I Learnt How To Be An Accessible Writer Who Grapples With Our Doubts As Sentient Individuals.

There Is Much To Be Said For Solitude.

But What We Can Never Do Is Change The Story That Has Made Us What We Are. It's A Story Completely Dictated By The Accumulation Of Life's Manifold Complexities—its Capacity For Astonishment And Horror, For Sanguinity And Hopelessness, For Pellucid Light And The Most Profound Darkness. We Are What Has Happened To Us.

I've Been Known To Write On The Underground In London And On The Subway In New York. I Have Two Or Three Cafes In Paris That I Go Into. I Find A Corner With A Little Shade, And I Can Work.

There Were Moments When I Felt Seriously Unhinged; When I Was Convinced That I Would Never, Ever Recover From What Had Happened, When It Was Absolutely Clear To Me That Life From This Point On Would Be Constant Agony.