My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
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After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
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