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Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more...

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With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't...

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have...

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