Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
I wrote the worst novel ever.
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.