Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.