Maps of Meaning

"I think I probably wrote every sentence in that book somewhere between 20 and 50 times," he says of his first novel. "What I kept was what I couldn't break, right? And I reread maps of meaning a couple of months ago, because I made the audio version,. so I read it out loud." He adds: "It's not because of the brilliance of my thought, it's because I was able to put forward these archetypal themes".