Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to screen and it's not exactly what was in my head or what I was imagining it should be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
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