It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.