I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Who isn't fascinated by evil?
I love deliberately badly written books.
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.