I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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