The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.
A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.