The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
Only in a novel are all things given full play.
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.