Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.
It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.