There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A book's flaws make it less predictable.
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
Books are my weakness.
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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