The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
Novel writing is solitary work.
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
Novel writing wrecks homes.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.