Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you have a book, you have a friend.
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I'm pretty good at helping them get there.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.