Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to make the world of 'The Last Book in the Universe' as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same.
I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.
Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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