I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view - something that genre fiction doesn't do, although it sells more because it doesn't disturb people's innate sense of what a novel should be about. Often, people want characters to be nice, for example.
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