«As a reader—and I am more of a reader than a writer, we all are, I
suppose—I can enjoy a good story, but in a novel, which takes time to
read, a good story is not enough for me. If I close a book and there are
no echoes, that is very frustrating. I like books that aren’t only
witty or ingenious. I prefer something that leaves a resonance, an
atmosphere behind. That is what happens to me when I read Shakespeare
and Proust. There are certain illuminations or flashes of things that
convey a completely different way of thinking. I’m using words that have
to do with light because sometimes, as I believe Faulkner said,
striking a match in the middle of the night in the middle of a field
doesn’t permit you to see anything more clearly, but to see more clearly
the darkness that surrounds you. Literature does that more than
anything else. It doesn’t properly illuminate things, but like the match
it lets you see how much darkness there is.»
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