Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.