Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.
You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.