The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
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What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
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