A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.
It's that drama that drives authors, you know.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.
You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.
Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.