The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.