There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
No opposing quotes found.