It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
With a novel, you're the director and the screenwriter and everything else, except that you have to write it knowing it will all be performed inside the head of the reader. So it's a difficult and lonely task.
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.