That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.
I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.
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