If you are like me, when you are writing novels, you get up every morning, come out here and say 'Why am I not doing something useful, like my brothers, like being a doctor and helping people in this world. I’m sitting here, a middle-aged man writing fantasies, spinning out stories which, in essence, may be read and enjoyed by some people for all the wrong reasons.'
You have no knowledge whether your books will be read when you are dead or even if they will be read ten years from now or whether they will be remembered two years from now. So that anyone who writes novels without having financial profit as his goal, who writes novels simply in the hope that he is going to create something that will last, is bound to be filled with self-doubt, and he is bound to be a person who becomes reclusive or gloomy at times.
Previously unpublished interview 1973 [The Irish Times, 5 January 2019]
Use the link below to read the full interview with Irish/Canadian novelist BRIAN MOORE:
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