As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
A book's flaws make it less predictable.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.