I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.