Literature invents its own rules.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
Some things in literature are inexplicable.
The laws of literary creation are unique; they don't change, and they are the same for everyone everywhere. I mean that you can tell a story that covers three hours of human life or three centuries - it comes to the same thing. Each writer who creates something authentic in a natural way instinctively also creates the technique that suits him.
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
Literature has become my life.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
Literature is the question minus the answer.