Simon King

“My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”
― Anthony Burgess