In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.