As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
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In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
I am the freest author in the world.
When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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