Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
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Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.