My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.


Writings on Writing (1980)


My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to...

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to...

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to...

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to...