But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
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I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.
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.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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