A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.