The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.