The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.