The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.
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