How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.
I love deliberately badly written books.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
I don't very often read novels.
Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.