The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.
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