If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.