Writers aren't born, they're made — from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage. - Alexander Chee

I was told I was talented. I don't know that it did much except make me lazy when I should have worked harder.

...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic.

Imagine yourself as a pool of light and sound altering as all your days run through you, and they pass again and again. From moment to moment, you are every age you have ever been, but in no particular order. Time courses through you, the time you lived, a flume of your days. This was Peter’s dementia.