I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
I don't very often read novels.
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
The writer studies literature, not the world.