Making Space For Readers & The Alchemy Of Possibility: Haruki Murakami Meets AS Byatt

I love those moments when two great writing quotes—from different authors—interact, sometimes with a little extra energy thrown in via a reader’s commentary.

As some of you may know, one of my very favourite quotes is drawn from AS Byatt’s Booker Award-winning novel, Possession:

‘Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.’

Recently, I featured a fabulous Guardian interview with Haruki Murakami, in which he said (amongst many other...