Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?