Saying What You Believe Others Want To

I Have A Longing For Fiction - To Try To Believe In It And To Disappear Into It.

The Strange Thing About Writing Is That It's So Easy To Write A Novel. It Is Really Easy. But It's Getting There To The Point Where It's Easy That's Hard. The Hard Part Is To Get There.

Saying What You Believe Others Want To Hear Is, Of Course, A Form Of Lying.

I Try To Write About Small Insignificant Things. I Try To Find Out If It’s Possible To Say Anything About Them. And I Almost Always Do If I Sit Down And Write About Something. There Is Something In That Thing That I Can Write About. It’s Very Much Like A Rehearsal. An Exercise, In A Way.

I Think There Are A Lot Of Similarities Between Writing And Music. Music Is Much More Direct And Much More Emotional And That's The Level I Want To Be At When I'm Writing. Writing Is Much More Intellectual And Indirect And Abstract, In A Way.