And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
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The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
With a novel, you're the director and the screenwriter and everything else, except that you have to write it knowing it will all be performed inside the head of the reader. So it's a difficult and lonely task.
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