The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.