If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.