I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Novels are longer than life.
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
I don't very often read novels.
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.