I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.
The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
I want people to be the authors of their own life story.
As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'