Sons and Lovers

"I remember in my early 20s reading “Sons and Lovers” and feeling very excited and thinking, O.K., this is getting at it, this is doing something amazing, I want to see how he does that."

"It may sound odd, because he is so out of fashion now, but “Sons and Lovers,” by D. H. Lawrence, which I read when I was 14 or 15. There was something about the tenderness he showed towards his characters; he seemed to love them as though they were real people."