If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
I have the most loyal readers in the world.
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.