Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
My books are based on observing others, not myself.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.
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