I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
I don't very often read novels.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.