I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.
I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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