My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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 publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.