I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.