There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.
I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
I don't really consider myself a writer.
I don't call myself a writer.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
No opposing quotes found.