It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.