I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.
I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.
Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.
Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.