We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.