Among the letters my readers write me there is a certain category which is continuously growing and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few...
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
