Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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.
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
I read several books at one time.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.