I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature, and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.