One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
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