Rebecca Makkai

“Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.”

“When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.”