I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
I want to be entertained, so if I want to be entertained, I know if I'm going to play, I want to make sure that you're entertained and that I'm having a great time. I really do love what I do.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
I don't need to have someone tell me what I'm going to be entertained by.
I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I like what I've got going on naturally and want to protect that. The one question I will ask myself as I'm re-reading a script for the 60th time is, 'Am I entertained? Still?' If the answer is 'yes,' I'll assume other people will be, too.
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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