In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
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