Railway Mania in the Bookshop

"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be." - Italo Calvino

Marksmanship in the Bookshop

"I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin." - John Irving