Simon King

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

“After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised”
― J. G. Ballard

“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

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