This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.