to me this is what fiction is about; it asks questions, and it doesn't answer. - Nadine Gordimer

[T]he isotopy of fragmentation constitutes a unifying web structurally present at the level of story, text, and narration

I was evidence of the theory that books are made out of other books . . . But I did not remain so for long, nor do I believe any potential writer could.

Do we ever live really in the present? I don’t think so, not entirely, do you?...There are always intrusions, sometimes welcome, sometimes not, from the past.