There's not much about me that readers don't know because I am equal parts open and boring. If there is one thing readers do know about me, it's that I am very un-domestic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
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