If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.
Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.