It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.