I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.