Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill
imagining leads resonance towards
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.
sleeves
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
special novel mediums
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.