The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
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I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.
So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.
If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.