I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.