In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.
The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?
There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.