When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.
David BezmozgisMost people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of people. And for those who find that they can't, all of sudden they leave the general mass, they find that they become exceptions, and exceptional, and often this makes them public.
David BezmozgisNothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.
David BezmozgisI think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.
David BezmozgisWriting a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.
David Bezmozgis