I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wrote; that's all.
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
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