Writing a bestseller instantly makes an author suspect in the eyes of
critics.
I am no philosopher. I like to think but I'm not deep. I'd like to write better, to do more sensory writing, better description. I try to write stylistically, but I'll sacrifice a good sentence for a good paragraph
I have ideas that interest people. I tell stories and readers are hungry for stories. What a lovely thing it is to sit down for three nights and be carried away by a book.
Maybe all my endings are wish-fulfillment. Maybe it's an anti-death thing. If I let the characters be tragic, dead or without hope, then I'd die too.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.