There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.
I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.