A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
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.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.