There's a passage in one of Plato's dialogues in which Socrates says that idealistic people often become misanthropic when they are let down two or three times. Plato suggests it can be like that with the search for the meaning of the good. You shouldn't get disillusioned when you get knocked back. All you've discovered is that the search is difficult, and you still have a duty to keep on searching.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

Totally blew off writing after picking up the Paris Review from Mac's Backs to read the Kazuo Ishiguro interview, which is fascinating and fun and encouraging and generally all around good, obvs. It's had the simultaneous effect of making me want to re-read all of his books again right now, and making me want to read or re-read all of "that full-blooded nineteenth-century fiction" he admits to being a fan of--like I need prompting to want to drop whatever I'm doing for Dostoevsky, but you know, prompting doesn't prevent.

Also, the interview provides tantalizing hints about the book he's working on now. What little he says about it makes it sound big. I'm looking forward to reading whatever he puts out next, to say the least.