When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.
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