Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.
When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.