... - Your books explore negative spaces: killings, a mass murder, alcoholism, prostitution…
...The really important subjects always hurt or strike a nerve...
...But picking a subject like that in full consciousness,
constructing a plot and juggling your own experience in the process is entirely different
to venting your personal frustrations and bile...
...You can only write one book like that...
...And there is a great deal of authors who wrote that one good book and either stopped at that
or evolved towards mediocrity...
...I now have the comfort of being able to spend between one and three years
working on a single novel...
...This comfort stems from caring about my properly understood self-interest...
...How many authors are able to say that they have two or three years to write a book?...
...And that they don’t have to work on anything else in the process?...
... - Probably just a few...
...Even the popular ones write columns for magazines, work as translators or do other things...
...I don’t have to write columns for seven papers or commercial advertising texts...
...Don’t you think that this is how the amazing talent of those people becomes diluted?...
...And we all lose out because of that...
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