The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
History is exciting because it's true.
The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.