I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.
Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.