I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.