Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.
I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.