A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.