An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
A story is built on characters and reasons.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
Novels are longer than life.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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