Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.
I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.
That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.
Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.
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