“That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative, empathetic effort to see the world the way someone whose experiences remote from yours might see it. Not every writer works that way; some writers make a wonderful career out of writing books that adhere very closely to how they view the world. The further I go with this, the more interested I get in trying to imagine my way into other perspectives that at first seem foreign to me.” WorldWritingTryingBookEffortImagineWonderfulPerspectiveMy WayImaginativeWriting A BookReally LongEmpathetic Author:Jonathan Dee
“That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.” ThinkingTryingLongBookCharacter Author:Jonathan Dee
“You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.” TryingBookLifetimeBeing YourselfGood Book Author:Jonathan Dee
“The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence. When you're handwriting, you really just have to move on.” WritingTryingMovingNiceComputerKeep Going Author:Jonathan Dee
“The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.” IfsWritingTryingFirstsNiceMinutesComputerSentencesKeep GoingNice ThingsTempting Author:Jonathan Dee
