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Timothy Harold Parks (born 19 December 1954 in Manchester) is a British novelist, translator, author and professor of literature.

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With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

Best Experiences, Book, Books, Different, Shifts, Tastes

Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed. . . Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it. ' And even 'bullshit. '

Believe, Hand, Hands, Pen, Writing

Italy is not a country for beginners.

Beginners, Country, Italy

More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don't decry it or criticize it - it's just a fact.

Community, Facts, Local, Readers, References, Use

If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized. Games, references, subtleties that only work in your language are hardly useful.

Games, Language, Moving, People, Recognized, Toward

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

Drop, Groups, Particular, Produce, Public, Understood

Andres Nocioni

Andres Nocioni

William B. Davis

William B. Davis

Joshuah Bearman

Joshuah Bearman

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Nick Cassavetes

Nick Cassavetes

Mimi Weddell

Mimi Weddell

Edward Victor Appleton

Edward Victor Appleton

Kevin Gutzman

Kevin Gutzman

André Aciman

André Aciman

Oliver P. Smith

Oliver P. Smith

Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris

Steve Gleason

Steve Gleason