It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
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The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
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