Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
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When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
In general, when I'm writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it's for.
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
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