It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
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I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.
Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.
I will write another book if I feel like it.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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