Source : DNA – JBM
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. I was in my early 20s. I began to read it as a young man, and when I finished it, I was a man. I began to read it as a young writer and when I finished it, I was a writer. I began to read it with my idea of life – fuzzy, when I finished it, life magnified.
My favourite books… I have to go back to the beginning again [after I’ve finished reading]. Many books [took me back to the start]: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, The Odyssey by Homer, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie’s Shame…I am old-fashioned – I just like books.
