I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.