A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.
From Ethan Canin
When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.
Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.
It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.
I never set out to be a published writer.
Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.
I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.
Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
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