Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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