My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
My work is intensely personal.
I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
I've always put myself intensely into my work.
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.
I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.