Marcel Theroux Quotes

There is something talismanic about familiar words.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

I thought it was a novel.”
“It is.”
“What’s it about??”
“You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.”
“This one’s got a recipe for apple crumble,” I said.
“Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.