It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
If it's not growing, it's going to die.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?
Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.