mans sviests

10.5.07 10:05
"There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written, and in this sense writing is a paradigm for the greatest of intimacy. Oh yes, there's the fame shit too, and swaggering around in a silk suit and having your catamite buff your toenails - I went for all that too."

http://books.guardian.co.uk/whyiwrite/story/0,,2075745,00.html