I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
I really absolutely loved writing my first book.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.