I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My books have all generated controversy.
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.
Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.