What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Tell-all books are boring.
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.