I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.
This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.