Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Novels are longer than life.
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.